May 9 is celebrated in many countries around the world. In some of them, the date is shifted by the 8th, but the meaning of the event does not change from this. This is the Great Victory Day of the Soviet people over fascism. According to all the forecasts of contemporaries, the Soviet Union had no chance to withstand, let alone defeat the enemy. The feat of the Soviet people inspires awe, awakens a sense of patriotism, and also gives a clear idea of what true heroism is and who real heroes are. The spirit of the war years is conveyed by Soviet films about the war. In order to feel the scale of the event at least for a moment, we suggest looking at the most interesting of them.
What holiday is it?
Victory Day is one of those holidays, the history of which does not need to be told, because everyone knows and remembers the feat of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, who stood to the end and defeated the Nazis in order to give us a peaceful sky overhead. Let's say to them a big human THANKS!
Every year the country and many other countries celebrate this great day - Victory Day! We congratulate the veterans who are still alive, we remember those who left us forever, as well as those who died directly during the Great Patriotic War and who went missing at the front.
How many tears and blood were shed, how many friends were lost, how many wives did not wait for their husbands, children of fathers, mothers of sons …
This Victory Day smelled of gunpowder,
This is a holiday with gray hair on the temples,
It is joy with tears in my eyes.
Victory Day!
Victory Day!
Victory Day!
Watch the video of Lev Leshchenko's performance with the song "Victory Day" on the Song of the Year - 1975:
The best Soviet films about the Great Patriotic War
We present to your attention the rating of the 15 best Soviet war films according to the authors of the "Holiday for All" project:
1. "The Dawns Here Are Quiet"
Year of issue: 1972
Director: Stanislav Rostotsky
Cast: Andrey Martynov, Irina Dolganova, Elena Drapeko, Ekaterina Markova, Olga Ostroumova, Irina Shevchuk, Lyudmila Zaitseva, Alla Meshcheryakova, Nina Emelyanova and others.
Short description: a two-part film based on the story of the same name by Boris Vasiliev. The main events take place in 1942 in the Second World War in Karelia. Sergeant Major Fedot Vaskov, dissatisfied with drunkenness, brawliness and red tape for women soldiers, send girls volunteers, many of whom have just graduated from school. One of them discovers two German soldiers in the forest, the foreman receives an order to neutralize the enemies. Five girls, led by a foreman, set up an ambush, but not two, but sixteen saboteurs come out of the forest. Vaskov's detachment enters into an unequal battle with the Germans. Reinforcements do not come, the girls die one after another, although the foreman tries to protect them as much as possible …
First episode:
Second episode - trailer:
2. "Only old men go to battle"
2 versions - black and white and color
Year of issue: 1973
Director: Leonid Bykov
Cast: Leonid Bykov, Sergei Podgorny, Sergei Ivanov, Rustam Sagdullaev, Evgenia Simonova, Olga Mateshko, Vladimir Talashko, Alexey Smirnov and others.
Short description: a film about the everyday life of fighter pilots during the Great Patriotic War. The action begins in the late summer of 1943. An interesting and gripping drama about how people lived, fought, and kept fighting spirit. The singing squadron of the protagonist, the so-called Maestro, goes through many trials, demonstrates an example of heroism and dedication. A light and, at the same time, action-packed film looks in one breath, a lot of phrases from it scattered into quotes.
3. "Belorussky Railway Station"
Year of issue: 1971
Director: Andrey Smirnov
Cast: Evgeny Leonov, Anatoly Papanov, Alexey Glazyrin, Vsevolod Safonov, Nina Urgant, Nikolai Volkov Jr., Lyubov Sokolova, Margarita Terekhova.
Short description: Former fellow soldiers - a journalist, accountant, plant director and a simple mechanic of utilities - parted at the Belorussky railway station in the summer of 1945. The last time they met was in 1946 at the birthday party of the front-line comrade Valentin Matveyev. Now they saw each other again to see him off on his last journey. Four friends, distracted by their business and everyday problems, roam around Moscow in search of a place for a commemoration. Unexpectedly for themselves, the heroes of the film find themselves in different situations that make them remember the front-line brotherhood and mutual assistance, to show hidden character traits. The film shows the contrast between the feelings and thoughts of the front-line soldiers and their younger contemporaries.
4. "Twenty days without war"
Year of issue: 1976
Director: Alexey German
Cast: Yuri Nikulin, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Alexey Petrenko, Angelina Stepanova, Ekaterina Vasilyeva, Nikolai Grinko, Luciena Ovchinnikova, Mikhail Kononov, Liya Akhedzhakova, R. Sadykov.
Short description: writer and front-line journalist Lopatin goes to Tashkent to visit the family of a deceased colleague, visit the filming of a film based on his essays, meet the upcoming 1943, experience a short, bright love …
Trailer:
5. "Aty-bats, soldiers were walking"
Year of issue: 1976
Director: Leonid Bykov
Cast: Leonid Bykov, Vladimir Konkin, Elena Shanina, Leonid Bakshtaev, Evgenia Uralova, Sergei Ivanov, etc.
Short description: the film shows two storylines in parallel. The first develops in the mid-1970s, the second - in the spring of 1944.By the end of the film, the lines close on the battlefield on March 18, 1944, the memory of which is honored by those who gathered on March 18, 1974.
6. "The Ballad of a Soldier"
Year of issue: 1959
Director: Grigory Chukhrai
Cast: Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Antonina Maksimova, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Evgeny Urbansky, Maria Kremneva, Elza Lezhdey, Valentina Telegin and others.
Short description: The Great Patriotic War, a young soldier Aleksey accomplished a feat - he knocked out two enemy tanks from an anti-tank rifle in one battle. The command is going to present him to the order, but the soldier asks to give him leave to see his mother. Having received only six days of vacation and having bought a gif.webpt from his mother, Alexey sets off on the road. On the road to a soldier, there are both bad and good people, events are very different. Including the first, barely born love. As a result, Alexei has only a few minutes to meet with his mother. Having hugged her and promising: "I will be back, mom!", The soldier sets off on his way back to the front …
Trailer:
7. "Two fighters"
Year of issue: 1943
Director: Leonid Lukov
Cast: Mark Bernes, Boris Andreev, Lavrenty Masokha, Ivan Kuznetsov, Maxim Shtraukh, Vera Shershneva, Stepan Krylov, Yanina Zheimo, Emmanuel Geller.
Brief description: a feature film, shot by director Leonid Lukov in conditions of evacuation during the Second World War, in 1943, based on the story "My fellow countrymen" by Lev Slavin. In 1963 the film studio named after M. Gorky made a re-release of the film. The drama tells the story of the indestructible front-line friendship of two Soviet soldiers during the war.
8. "The fate of man"
Year of issue: 1959
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk
Cast: Sergei Bondarchuk, Pavel Boriskin, Zinaida Kirienko, Pavel Volkov, Yuri Averin, Kirill Alekseev, Pavel Vinnikov, Evgeny Teterin, Anatoly Chemodurov, Lev Borisov and others.
Short description: the adaptation of the story of the same name by M. Sholokhov. The hard fate, the terrible events of the war years, the death of the closest and beloved people did not make the main character callous and insensitive. After the war, the lonely Sokolov works far from his native place, where he meets a little boy Vanya, left an orphan. The man decides to tell the boy that he is his father, which gives himself and the boy hope for a new happy life …
Trailer:
9. "Goodbye, boys!"
Year of issue: 1964
Director: Mikhail Kalik
Cast: Evgeny Steblov, Nikolai Dostal, Mikhail Kononov, Natalia Bogunova, Anna Rodionova, Victoria Fedorova, Angelina Stepanova, Evgenia Melnikova, Evgeny Perov, Nikolai Grabbe and others.
Short description: in the seaside town of the late 1930s. three friends live. All day long they disappear at sea, watching the life of the port and beach activities of vacationers. One of his friends with youthful maximalism reflects on friendship, first love and the meaning of their young life, which will very soon be turned over by the war …
Trailer:
10. "Wait for me"
Year of issue: 1943
Director: Alexander Stolper
Cast: Lyudmila Glazova, Boris Blinov, Lev Sverdlin, Mikhail Nazvanov, Valentina Serova and others.
Short description: the melodrama was based on the works of Konstantin Simonov. The picture tells about the front-line friendship and true love. Three friends promised to meet each other after the war. If they managed to fulfill this promise, see the film.
11. "They were only known by sight"
Year of issue: 1966
Director: Anton Timonishin
Cast: Alexander Belyavsky, Gennady Voropaev, Marina Strizhenova, Irina Miroshnichenko, Lavrenty Masokha, Alexander Serdyuk, Yuri Volkov and others.
Short description: The film is based on E. Rostovtsev's story "The Hour of Trials". The drama is based on real events, the plot is based on the feat of Soviet intelligence officers in occupied Odessa during the Second World War.
12. "The Living and the Dead"
Year of issue: 1964
Director: Alexander Stolper
Cast: Kirill Lavrov, Vladlen Paulus, Yuri Volkov, Anatoly Papanov, Oleg Efremov, Lyudmila Krylova, Oleg Tabakov, Victor Avdyushko and others.
Short description: a two-part film based on 1 part of the novel of the same name by Konstantin Simonov. The grandiose epic of a six-month catastrophic retreat and the mighty counterattack that followed is shown through the perception of one person who is not a professional military man, but his character, education and profession allow him to understand, feel and express the essence of everything that is happening.
Trailer:
13. "Young Guard"
Year of issue: 1948 (1964)
Director: Sergey Gerasimov
Cast: Vladimir Ivanov, Inna Makarova, Nonna Mordyukova, Sergei Gurzo.
Short description:
First series: the film is based on the novel of the same name by A. Fadeev. The plot unfolds in a miners' town occupied by the Nazis in 1942. Young guys - still yesterday's schoolchildren - decide to fight the invaders …
Second series:
14. "Father of the Soldier"
Year of issue: 1964
Director: Rezo Chkheidze
Cast: Sergo Zakariadze, Vladimir Privaltsev, Alexander Nazarov.
Short description: a touching story about the father's search for his son at the front …
15. "Seventeen Moments of Spring"
Year of issue: 1973
Director: Tatiana Lioznova
Cast: Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Leonid Bronevoy, Oleg Tabakov, Ekaterina Gradova, Leonid Kuravlev, Rostislav Plyatt.
Short description: a multi-part film based on the book of the same name by Yulian Semenov (Lyandres). This is a military drama about a Soviet intelligence agent who was infiltrated into the highest echelons of power in Nazi Germany. The events described fall on the period from February 12 to March 24, 1945, shortly before the surrender of Germany in the Second World War. The hero of the film is a Soviet intelligence officer who was tasked with finding out which of the top leaders of the Reich intends to conduct separate negotiations on an armistice with the United States and Great Britain. But at some point, Stirlitz's task becomes more complicated …
1-12 series:
This list does not include the first and the last. All films are important, heartfelt, telling about the main human qualities. We all need to know and remember this. The magnitude of the tragedy of the Soviet people is striking, the price paid for the Victory is breathtaking. Watch our favorite domestic films about the war for the great holiday of May 9 and never forget the feat that our veterans performed! HAPPY VICTORY DAY! REMEMBER, Proud, THANK YOU!
