Russian Movies Weekend #6

This weekend I’d like to share two of my old Soviet favs from mid-80s. As far as I can tell they are still popular in modern Russia.

Last Year’s Snow Was Falling / Падал прошлогодний снег (1983)

Genres/Tags: Short Clay Animation
iMDB Rating: 8.4 out of 10 (based on 1518 ratings)
Director: Aleksandr Tatarskiy
Video format: YouTube
Languages: Russian Audio, English subtitles

 

Description

Surreal misadventures of a lazy drunkard with speech impediment trying to get a New Year tree on a short notice. Loosely based on folk fairy tales.

Watch

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Guest from the Future / Гостья из будущего (1985)

Genres/Tags: TV Mini-series (5 episodes)
iMDB Rating: 8.2 out of 10 (based on 1998 ratings)
Director: Pavel Arsenov
Starring: Natalya Guseva, Aleksei Fomkin, Maryana Ionesyan, Ilya Naumov
Video format: YouTube
Languages: Russian Audio, English subtitles

 

Description

A school boy finds a time machine and he helps Alisa, a scientist girl in the future, to save a mind-reading device from space pirates. Chased by the pirates and followed by Alisa he saves the device bringing it back to his own time.

PS: Absolutely not related to “Back to the Future” ?

Watch Episode 1

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