It is impossible to imagine the New Year and the long January weekend without Russian classics. Under what films will we destroy tangerines?
“Carnival Night” (1956)
The triumphant debut of Eldar Ryazanov. A team of young club workers is getting ready for Christmas and planning an interesting and fun holiday, but their plans are thwarted by the manager – a bureaucrat, a bookworm and a bureaucrat. Then the teenager decides to take down the narrow-minded boss to throw a real New Year’s Eve ball.
“Evenings on a farm near Dikanka” (1961)
A magnificent adaptation of Gogol’s The Night Before Christmas, a hilarious story about how a demon deceived everyone in the village on Christmas night and how a mighty blacksmith managed to defeat the evil spirits and buy noble boots for his bride.
“Don” (1964)
A profitable fairy tale from Alexander Row, which even succeeded at the Venice Film Festival. This is a gentle story about the girl Nastenka, whose evil stepmother forced her to work without rest, and then decided to completely get rid of her by sending her to freeze in the winter forest. There, she met Ivan, a man fascinated by a bear.
“The Snow Queen” (1966)
A fairy tale with the young Elena Proklova, adapted from Evgeny Schwartz’s play, which tells about the extraordinary journey of the humble little girl Gerda in search of her friend Kai, who was kidnapped by the Snow Queen. He will have to lead himself to the castle of a cunning, treacherous and at the same time funny king, meet forest robbers and overcome all obstacles.
“Fortune Zigzag” (1968)
Eldar Ryazanov’s comedy about a young photographer Volodya Oreshnikov (Yevgeny Leonov), who earns ten thousand rubles. And his colleagues set up a public court without hesitation. The fact is that the photographer secretly received twenty rubles for the purchase of bonds from the mutual benefit fund, of which he was the head.
“Snow Maiden” (1968)
A fairy tale based on Alexander Ostrovsky’s play about the Snow Maiden, the daughter of Father Frost and the Beauty of Spring. Her icy heart never tasted simple human joys, she never knew love before meeting Lel, whose spiritual warmth gave the girl the wealth of the world around her.
“The Irony of Fate or Enjoy Your Bath!” (1975)
A classic for all time and perhaps the main New Year’s movie in Russia. This is the story of how a harmless trip to the hammam on December 31st turned into an extraordinary adventure for one of the friends. So Zhenya Lukashin accidentally finds himself in someone else’s apartment in Leningrad.
“Wizards” (1982)
A Christmas tale that true love can do wonders. At the NUINU Institute (Scientific Universal Institute of Extraordinary Services), a stormy work on the manufacture of a magic wand is in full swing. The presentation of the invention is scheduled for December 31, New Year’s Day. But the institute director’s opponents, who pursue their own goals, step in.
“Poor Sasha” (1997)
On New Year’s Eve, a girl wants to rob her rich mother’s bank to stop working so hard and start spending time with her daughter. The girl lacks parental warmth, and her mother feels uncomfortable without a loved one. The main character must solve these problems.
“The Bride” (2006)
One day, at Christmas time, a romantic student from the country decides to do fortune-telling and sees his fiancee, whom he fell in love with at first sight as a schoolgirl in the mirror. Then the girl decides not to ignore the signs of fate and goes in search of her fiancee. And when he finds it, then … he goes to his funeral. In the lead role – a very young Julia Peresild!
“Snow Angel” (2007)
Comedy with Victoria Tolstoganova, Dmitry Pertsov and Alexander Baluev. A lonely girl goes to St. Petersburg every New Year to avoid celebrating the holiday with her friends who are trying to get her married. She goes to St. Petersburg. But one day she decides to break the established ritual and change her destiny.
“New Year’s Schedule” (2008)
New Year’s Eve is always full of miracles and surprises. And miracles of our time often happen thanks to technological progress, if not without the involvement of Santa Claus, who today may simply become a dream phone salesman. Starring Maxim Matveev and Valeria Lanskaya.
“Christmas Trees” (2010)
A modern New Year’s classic, which already consists of nine parts. But we advise you to “respect” the beginning of this epic, which takes place in eleven cities: Kaliningrad, Kazan, Perm, Ufa, Bavlakh, Yekaterinburg, Krasnoyarsk, Yakutsk, Novosibirsk, St. Petersburg and Moscow. The protagonists of the film are a taxi driver and a star, a businessman and an actor, a snowboarder and a skier, a student and a pensioner, a firefighter and a headmistress, a thief and a policeman, a guest worker and the President. Russia. They all find themselves in a difficult situation on New Year’s Eve and only a miracle helps them out of this situation. Or – The six handshake theory where every person in the world knows the other through six acquaintances.
“What Else Men Talk” (2011)
New Year’s version of the famous “What Men Talk”. On New Year’s Eve, Sasha managed to get into a conflict with the wife of a law enforcement officer, and now she and her friends are locked in the office of an advertising agency, trying to find a way out of this. she spent time in the situation and the conversations of men.
“This Is What Happened To Me” (2012)
Viktor Shamirov’s tragicomedy with music by Mikael Tariverdiev and Gosha Kutsenko. December 31, Moscow impossible traffic jam. Inconsequential haste, help that doesn’t make anyone feel better. Talk about the endless little things life has passed – or maybe it’s already passed. It’s about a father who has nothing left and nothing can be done. About a thirteen-year-old girl’s plans for life: you can be an oncologist, you can be a food designer. About what it was and what it is now.
Source: People Talk
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