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'''Film'''
The Soviet Union had its own film industry, doing quite a few science fiction films (the original ''[[
Some of the more notable Soviet films are:
* ''[[Battleship Potemkin]]''. The source of "The Odessa Steps" sequence.
* ''[[wikipedia:October: Ten Days That Shook the World|October: Ten Days That Shook the World]]''. A reasonably accurate re-creation of [[Red October]].
* ''[[Alexander Nevsky]]''. Teutonic Knights, [[Putting
** This film is notable for "Battle of the Ice", which directly inspired quite a few later battle scenes.
* ''[[Ivan the Terrible]]''
(all four of these were directed by [[Sergei Eisenstein]])
* Andrei Tarkovsky's ''[[
* ''[[White Sun of the Desert]]'': one of the best, if not the best of the USSR Ostern tradition - taking traditional Western themes and adapting them to post civil war Russia.
* ''[[wikipedia:At Home Among Strangers|At Home Among the Strangers]]'': Another Ostern, the one that launched [[Nikita Mikhalkov]]'s career and may be the best thing he's ever done.
* ''[[Kin
* ''[[War and Peace]]'', [[Sergei Bondarchuk]]'s epic four-part adaptation that is considered the most expensive film in history. It was the first Soviet film to win an Academy Award, to be followed by...
* ''[[Dersu Uzala]]''. Directed by [[Akira Kurosawa]], this film is an adaptation of the memoirs of the Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev, chronicling his exploration of the Russian Far East and his friendship with his native guide Dersu, a real life [[Noble Savage]].
* ''[[wikipedia:The Irony of Fate|The Irony of Fate]]'' (full Russian title: ''Ironiya Sudby, ili S Lyogkim Parom!''; see the "Taking Steam" section below), a 1975 comedy-drama by Eldar Ryazanov. Starting out as a satire of the unimaginative uniformity of Brezhnev era architecture and a screwball comedy about a man getting stranded on New Year's Eve (and having to explain himself to his fiancée, as well as to the fiancé of the woman whose apartment he unwittingly broke into), the film evolves into a melodramatic love story with a somewhat [[Bittersweet Ending]]. Similar to ''[[
** A sequel, ''[[wikipedia:The Irony of Fate 2|The Irony of Fate 2]]'', was filmed in 2007 by Timur Bekmambetov, more famous as the director of ''[[Night Watch]]'' and ''[[Wanted]]'' and the co-producer of Shane Acker's ''[[Nine]]''. The sequel puts the children of the lead characters of the first film in the exact same situation in [[The New Russia|the modern day]]. Since Soviet nostalgia is [[Serious Business]] in Russia, public opinion of the film is [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|highly]] [[Your Mileage May Vary|divided]] (the [[Egregious]] amounts of [[Product Placement]] do not help).
* ''[[wikipedia:Office Romance|Office Romance]]'' (full Russian title: ''Sluzhebnyy roman''), another lyrical comedy by Eldar Ryazanov about developing [[Exactly What It Says
* ''[[Gentlemen of Fortune]]'' dramedy about kindergarten teacher who uses his [[Criminal Doppelganger|appearance extremely similar to the hardened criminal]], infiltrates the gang and tries to find the helmet of [[Alexander the Great]] that gang stole earlier, all the while trying to fix what went wrong with his subordinates lifes and to push them into law-abiding normalcy.
* ''[[Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession]]'' goofy comedy about an [[Mad Scientist|eccentric engineer]] who invented time-machine and got Ivan The Terrible into his modern world while two other 20th century guys (an [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|apartmant house intendant]] who looked much like Ivan the Terrible, and a [[Lovable Rogue]]) stuck in medieval Russia.
* ''[[Ninth Company]] (9 Rota)'', a 2005 Russian/Finnish film about an intense battle during [[Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan|war in Afghanistan]] involving the titular paratrooper unit. Directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk, son of [[Sergei Bondarchuk]].
* ''[[Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears]]'', a 1980 film by [[Vladimir Menshov]] about provincial girls who come to Moscow hoping to find happiness. One of only three Russian-language films to win the Foreign Film Oscar, alongside ''[[War and Peace]]'' and ''[[Burnt
* ''[[Guest From the Future]]'', a 1984 [[Pavel Arsenov]] [[Miniseries]] based on one of the [[Alice, Girl
* ''[[Burnt
* ''Zhmurki'' or ''Blind Man's Bluff'', a 2005 criminal (very) black comedy about early 1990s.
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'''Music'''
Russia is famous for not only its music, but the style of music. The ''[[
Tchaikovsky is by far the most famous Russian composer. You'll have heard of ''[[Swan Lake]]'', ''[[The Nutcracker (
There is a lot of folk music. The Mary Hopkin song ''Those Were the Days'' is based on an old Russian folk tune.
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In the good old days of the Soviet Union, the tendency amongst the intellectuals was that true art should stick it to the man - The Man being the party establishment and bureaucracy. Given that the only way to do that without an exciting free trip to [[The Gulag]] (or just being stripped of all benefits due to a performing artist in less strict times) was to [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|smuggle crap past the radar]], intellectuals grew adept at figuring out just how [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|everyone are Stalin in the Masoleum]]. Interestingly enough, intelligentsia actually called the smuggled crap an «[[Aesop]] language», making ''them'' [[Trope Namers]]. A band could also gather acclaim by using the [[Power of Rock]] to kick against tame mainstream music establishment. All this gave rise to a unique genre, called "authors' song", or better known as ''bard music''.
Bard music appeared in 1960s Soviet Union and became immensely popular. It is [[Three Chords and
The late 1970s and early 1980s were the time when native Russian rock appeared, growing from bardic tradition but adding more complex rock music techniques to the genre. The most famous founding fathers of Russian rock are [[Boris Grebenschikov]] and [[Viktor Tsoi]].
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* ''Pole Chudes'' ("The Field of Wonders"), a still-running Russian version of ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'', it started in 1990.
* Vremya ("Time")- a Soviet news programme, still broadcast today in Russia.
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076998/ D'artagnan and the three musketeers]: [[Exactly What It Says
Russian TV series:
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* ''Bednaya Nastya'' ("Poor Nastya"), a Russian ''telenovela'', broadcast in the US.
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Russia is famous for its chess playing- in ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'', you can no longer actually play Chess in a [[Chess
'''Card Games'''
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'''[[Video Games]]'''
The Soviet Union invented [[
More recently, the Eastern Bloc has produced [[STALKER]], [[
'''[[Tabletop Games]]'''
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