Russian Movies

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I found a Russian video shop in my city and found myself holder Peter FM in my hand. He told me it was a code 5 DVD. I asked him if he had any code 5 DVD players and he sold me a Phillips and taught me how to recode it to be a code zero machine. Now it plays my Russian videos and my American videos just fine.

Lets see I think this may become Russian movie review thread so I will put in my two cents.

Moscow cries no tears - older movie set in the 50's or sixties, a bit hard to follow and a song that I cant seem to get out of my head, the wife thinks this if funny but it is driving me mad...

Crimson sails - older movie, decent plot, a little silly and the girl in it is crazy insane. Kind of fairy tail story.

Railway station for 2 - Elena likes older movies, kind of cheesy plotline, guy takes a trip, goes to eat lunch at a rail stop, refuses to eat the swill, refuses to pay, misses his train, falls in love with rude waitress kind of funny dialogue, and the acting is not great.

Burnt by the Sun - The russian version of Ishtar - extremely long with little to no plot or point to the movie. Very propaganda based movie - only redeeming feature is the main character Kotov is the boyfriend of the woman in Railway station for 2. All I know is that if I could have walked out of the theater I would have. Elena kept waking me up because I was missing this cinematic gem of a movie. Never again... I have lost 3 hours of my life I will never get back.

Well that is about all for the 4 movies we have watched so far. If anyone else has any recommendations or warnings Id love to have them.

yes" moskva slezam ne verit"(moscow doesnt beleive in tears is a classic,1979,and it won best foreign film in usa that year. i like it,i have probobly watched it 5 times.

"the 9th company" or as he said "company 9"or "9 company" in russian is very good also. especially if you are a vet.

the movies my girl tells me about like "mongol" and "angel a"(french director Luke besson) are the ones i havent seen that i want to see very much.

just my 2 kopecks:)

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"the 9th company" or as he said "company 9"or "9 company" in russian is very good also. especially if you are a vet.

the movies my girl tells me about like "mongol" and "angel a"(french director Luke besson) are the ones i havent seen that i want to see very much.

just my 2 kopecks:)

9 POTA is an excellent film! I saw it as kind of a Tigerland meets Full Metal Jacket meets Hamburger Hill all remixed into Russian. If you get suckered into watching a Russian movie with your wife, this is the kind of movie you want to see!

And if you liked this one, check out Okhota na Piranyu. A solid action movie with some funny parts.

My sister-in-law just brought us like 439 movies on 8 discs or something like that. (Gotta love the bootleg guys in the Metro station.) Mongol and Angel A are among the ones on my "to watch" list. Now if only I could find the time.....