11.	View Larger Image	Come and See Actors: Aleksei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Lauciavicius Director: Elem Klimov
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12.	View Larger Image	War and Peace (Special Edition) Actor: Irina Skobtseva
		From Amazon.com Like Tolstoy's novel, this epic-length War and Peace is rough going, but worth the effort. Winner of the 1969 Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film and widely considered the most faithful adaptation of Tolstoy's classic, Sergei Bondarchuk's massive Soviet-Italian coproduction was seven years in the making, at a record-setting cost of $100 million. Bondarchuk himself plays the central role of ... more Buy from Amazon

13.	View Larger Image	Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears Director: Vladimir Menshov
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14.	View Larger Image	Orlando Actor: Tilda Swinton Director: Sally Potter
		From Amazon.com Breathtaking and practically nondiscursive, Sally Potter's audacious Orlando overcomes some dodgy performances and a narrative structure that could most generously be described as "loose" to emerge as a haunting, discussion-provoking trans-historical and transsexual drama. Commanded never to age by Queen Elizabeth (played with surprisingly little camp by legendary cross-dresser Quentin Crisp), the title character becomes immortal; we then follow Orlando through ... more Buy from Amazon

15.	View Larger Image	The Cuckoo Actors: Anni-Kristiina Juuso, Ville Haapasalo, Viktor Bychkov Director: Aleksandr Rogozhkin
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16.	View Larger Image	Kidnapping Caucassian Style Director: Leonid Gaidai
		From Description Shurik, a naive student of the rites and traditions of the Caucas region of the Soviet Union, falls in love with Nina, "a Komsomol member, an athlete, an activist, and just a beauty," who is "kidnapped Caucasian style" with a bit of his help to be forced to marry a senior local official. But as soon as Shurik finds out what ... more Buy from Amazon

17.	View Larger Image	Andrei Rublev - Criterion Collection Actors: Anatoli Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
		From Amazon.com At last, the complete version of Andrei Tarkovski's 1966 masterpiece about the great 15th century Russian icon painter (a film suppressed by the Soviet Union and unseen until 1971) is available. It's a complex and demanding narrative about the responsibility of the artist to participate in history rather than documenting it from a safe distance. A landmark in Russian cinema, Andrei ... more Buy from Amazon

18.	View Larger Image	The Irony of Fate, or "Enjoy Your Bath" Director: Eldar Ryazanov
		From Description An unforgettable New Year's Eve provides the backdrop as four friends embark on their annual get-together at a local bathing house, where too much steam and plentiful vodka result in hilarious and charming consequences. Two men pass out, another winds up in the wrong city, and the women in their lives are left scratching their heads as midnight rapidly approaches in ... more Buy from Amazon

19.	View Larger Image	Solaris - Criterion Collection Actors: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
		From Amazon.com The Russian answer to 2001, and very nearly as memorable a movie. The legendary Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky made this extremely deliberate science-fiction epic, an adaptation of a novel by Stanislaw Lem. The story follows a cosmonaut (Donatas Banionis) on an eerie trip to a planet where haunting memories can take physical form. Its bare outline makes it sound like a ... more Buy from Amazon

20.	View Larger Image	Ballad of a Soldier - Criterion Collection Actors: Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko Director: Grigori Chukhraj
		From Amazon.com Grigory Chukhraj's poetic odyssey of an accidental hero on a six-day pass is a sentimental journey through the ideals of the Soviet state in World War II. Vladimir Ivashov is the fresh-faced signalman whose trip from the Russian front to visit his white-haired mother becomes a series of detours as he stops to help the loyal comrades, fellow soldiers, and salt-of-the-earth ... more Buy from Amazon