Table of contents:
- 1. "About Little Red Riding Hood"
- 2. "Oh, this Nastya"
- 3. "Guest from the future"
- 4. "Bronze bird"
- 5. "Dot, dot, comma …"
- 6. "The Adventures of Electronics"
- 7. "Deniskin's stories"
- 8. "Adventures of the yellow suitcase"
- 9. "Bob and the Elephant"
- 10. "New Year's Adventures of Masha and Viti"
Video: 10 fascinating Soviet films worth showing modern children
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
What they didn’t save on in Soviet times was films for children. In children's cinema, the principle "all the best for children" was fully implemented. The scripts for these films were written by the best screenwriters, eminent directors shot pictures for children, and the most popular actors played the roles. In this review of 10 films that parents must show their kids today. And there is no doubt that the parents themselves will be happy to watch each of these films.
1. "About Little Red Riding Hood"
directed by Leonid Nechaev, 1977Unusual adaptation of the tale of Charles Perrault. Little Red Riding Hood hurries to her sick grandmother, but it turns out that the grandmother is not at all sick. It was the old she-wolf who arranged it in such a way as to lure the girl out of the house. The she-wolf persuades the Thin and Tolstoy wolves to seize the girl, thereby avenging the son once killed by the hunters. Many times Little Red Riding Hood is faced with human and wolf injustice, but her kind heart does not harden, and good deeds and sweet disposition change the character of wolves sent to commit evil. And of course, a brilliant acting game!
2. "Oh, this Nastya"
director Yuri Pobedonostsev, 1972A touching film about a little girl Nastya Ryabinina, who lives in a kind of world of fantasy and inventions. Nastya is a kind and impressionable girl, but for some reason she always gets into ridiculous stories, because of which she is not accepted as a pioneer for a long time. Nastya is "friends" with the drawn graceful panther, invites to the school the "pilot" Sasha, who is not a pilot at all … Nastya loves to dance and never wants to part with this occupation. But the older sister gives the girl an ultimatum …
3. "Guest from the future"
directed by Pavel Arsenov, 1984A fantastic film in which the future is presented through the eyes of sixth grader Kolya Gerasimov. Going to the store for kefir, Kolya gets with the help of a time machine to Moscow in 2084. This is a completely different Moscow: for a hundred years the human mind has invented spaceports and myelophones, biorobots and flat buses. Kolya finds new friends in the future: a very smart girl Alisa Selezneva and a kind robot Werther. But harmful space pirates stand in the way of friends: Rat and Merry …
4. "Bronze bird"
director Nikolay Kalinin, 1974The film takes place in the post-revolutionary period, not far from the count's estate. The Moscow guys were sent here to the pioneer camp. The film tells about the next adventures of three friends: Misha, Genka and Slavka. Now the guys have to reveal the secret of the "bronze bird", which is located on the terrace of the former count's house. The evil woman in black (her friends call her the Countess) is hiding something. Friends are trying to find out what exactly and become eyewitnesses of the "diamond" story.
5. "Dot, dot, comma …"
directed by Alexander Mitta, 1972A loser from the eighth grade, Lyosha Zhiltsov, becomes self-confident thanks to his acquaintance with a new girl from Zhenya's class. Calm and judicious Zhenya is above any ambition and vanity. She has a positive effect on Lyosha, and he begins to believe in himself and in his strength. At the end of the film, even the class leaders admitted Lyosha's tenacity and then victory.
6. "The Adventures of Electronics"
directed by Konstantin Bromberg, 1979Good cinema for children and adults. Professor Gromov, having copied the appearance of an ordinary Moscow schoolboy Seryozha Syroezhkin, created a unique robot boy Electronics. Syroezhkin and Elektronik accidentally meet on the street, and after they meet, fascinating adventures and secrets begin. The whole school where Syroezhkin is studying is involved in extraordinary adventures. Will Electronic become a real person? Will friends be able to save him? The answer is in the film, in the film for all time.
7. "Deniskin's stories"
directed by Vladimir Khramov, 1970Children's musical film based on the stories of Viktor Dragunsky. The film focuses on the everyday little adventures of Deniska Korablev and Mishka Slonov, as well as their courtyard friends. One of the funniest: to win an annual subscription to the Murzilka magazine, you need to weigh exactly 25 kilos. The bear weighs more, but Deniska needs very little up to the cherished norm. Friends gain the necessary grams with the help of … soda.
8. "Adventures of the yellow suitcase"
director Ilya Fraz, 1970A funny movie tale about the great power of friendship and love. The boy Petya is afraid even of his own shadow, the girl Toma never smiles, but only cries. How can I help them? Petit's mother asks for help from a wonderful doctor who treats any misfortunes with sweets. The good-natured but absent-minded doctor keeps magic candies in a yellow suitcase. It is because of him that the fairy tale is twisted in the film.
9. "Bob and the Elephant"
director August Baltrushaitis, 1972 Is it possible for a little boy to be friends with a huge elephant? It turns out that it is possible if a kind, sympathetic heart beats in the boy's chest. Boba meets an elephant at the zoo and becomes attached to it. The elephant also fell in love with the child with his elephant love. Once, offended by the elephant, Boba does not go to the zoo for a long time. Then the elephant decides to visit the child himself.
10. "New Year's Adventures of Masha and Viti"
director Gennady Kazansky, Igor Usov, 1975 The New Year's tale, first shown to Soviet children from blue screens for a very long time, is still a favorite film about the New Year. The clever, judicious Vitya and the kind, emotional Masha go to the Kashcheevo kingdom to save the Snow Maiden and bring her to the children at the school tree. Baba Yaga and her faithful assistants, the goblin and the cat, harm the kids in every possible way, but their dedication and mutual assistance help them in their difficult journey.
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