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By tragicclown
#71251
battleship potemkin Silent 1920s masterpeice on the revolt in Oddessa in the 1905 Russian revolution.

October Eisenstein's other very famous film, about the 1917 October revolution. In the United States the film is often titled "Ten Days That Shook the World" though it is basically unrelated to the John Reed book exept in subject matter.

Rebels with a cause Documentary on the American SDS

The Weather Underground Documentary about (as one might expect) the Weather Underground.

Children of the Revolution Comedy about an Australian Communist who has a child in an affair with Stalin who becomes a police union leader.

Good bye Lenin Tragicomedy about an East German women in a coma in the 80s who wakes up in the 90s, her grandchildren try to protect her from the shock that her beloved D.D.R. has been colonized by the West Germans.

Vladimir et Rosa, Wind from the East and Pravda, Jean-luc Godard's three most ideologically obvious Maoist films.

Reds Three hour film about John Reed, the American Communist who reported on the October revolution.

Stalingrad As its name implies, about the battle for Stalingrad.

Enemy at the Gates Also about Stalingrad, with Jude Law and occassional anti-Communist propaganda.

Frida Film on Frida Kahlo, Mexican surrealist painter, that emphasises the political aspects of her life as a Communist activist, has a Leon Trotsky character complete with violent icepick scene.

Manchurian Candidate Chinese Communists brainwash an American POW and control an election. I wish we could brainwash people.

Dr. Strangelove: or how I stoped worrying and learned to love the bomb Dark comedy about nuclear war.

so, can anyone add to this list? Commie films are fun.
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By Maxim Litvinov
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That's a great list, TragicClown.

Anything by Eisenstein and Dovzhenko (like "Earth"/Zemlya) is good and famous. Aleksandr Nevsky (Eisenstein) is excellently shot and has a great score (Prokofiev,I think).

"The Cranes are Flying"/Letiat Zhuravli is a wonderfully shot movie about a wartime romance. A sort of pre-Private Ryan Soviet version of war films is "Come and See".

Aelita, Queen of Mars isn't very good, but it's funny :)

Try searching Amazon.com -http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/284938/ref=br_dp__4/102-0990561-3637719

I know "Russian" film doesn't equal "Communist" film, but there are some wonderful movies out there. Andrei Tarkovsky has made some wonderful more modern films in the 'Russian' category.

And Good Bye Lenin! isn't really pro-Communist, but it is a very good film.

I can't recommend "Children of the Revolution" though =(
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By Comrade Ogilvy
#71262
Burnt by the Sun, or Utomlyonnye solntsem, depending on what language you want to see it in.

Good flick.
By Deluxe 007
#71269
There's a Soviet movie, which here was called "Rusia 1917", and it depicts the October Revolution almost day by day. I saw it last November in the telly. I think it's probably one of the movies TragicClown mentions, maybe "October" or "Reds", because John Reed was sort of the protagonist.

And Maxim, last year here in my city there was a one week show of Soviet movies, and I had the chance to watch "Come And See". Wonderful movie. Very crude and realistic. That movie made me sick.

If you think "Saving Private Ryan" is the best recreation the real horrors of war, then you haven't watched "Come And See".
By Justin534
#71302
Dr. Strangelove:


Ya, I love that one. :lol:

Isnt there a movie about Cuba? I cant remember the name of it.
By smithbrian86
#71324
Has anyone seen that documentary about the personal life of Fidel Castro? Alot of people were raving about that one in the summer.

Brian Smith
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By RedFlagBearer
#71332
"Red Dawn" :D :D
By smithbrian86
#71333
I have red dawn on dvd, very weak flick. I think that Castro documentary is called "commandante" I caught one night while I was watching tv, about half was through unfortunately, I would like to buy it if I could.

Brian Smith
By Ixa
#71520
"1900"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... 02-0347212

According to the reviews on that website the film has a "socialist
agenda" and never contradicticts Marxism.
This is one of Bernardo Bertolucci's adventures in epic filmmaking that never found the reception he had hoped for. Originally more than six hours long, it was chopped down to four hours for its U.S. release and as a result looked, well, choppy. Eventually, he restored it to five hours--but one wonders at all the effort on behalf of this alternately muddled and stunning story. The film, with a decidedly socialist agenda, examines two lives that begin the same year in rural Italy: the weak-willed son of the aristocracy (Robert De Niro) and the hardy, courageous son of peasants (Gerard Depardieu). They grow up as best friends on the same estate, until class differences pull them apart and then the era's fascist politics divide them for good. Despite strong performances by both leads, as well as Sterling Hayden, Donald Sutherland, Dominique Sanda, and Burt Lancaster, this one is strictly for Bertolucci's most avid fans. --Marshall Fine


The film is six hours long!
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By Comrade Nicolae Ceausescu
#71592
I heard about one called "Mission to Moscow".They made a movie out of the book.
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By Monkey Angst
#71594
Some movies that are not about communism/socialism per se, but whose characters are communists/socialists:

I'm not Rappaport, by Herb Gardner
The Funeral, by Abel Ferrara
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By Comrade Joseph
#71648
Enemy at the Gates! I even have it on DVD haha! :lol:

Besides all the parts where there is stupid anticommunism, it is a decent movie.
By Tovarish Spetsnaz
#71727
Frida Film on Frida Kahlo, Mexican surrealist painter, that emphasises the political aspects of her life as a Communist activist, has a Leon Trotsky character complete with violent icepick scene.


Yey...icepicks!! :knife: :knife: ...come to think of it...it has Frida in it...err...now thats scary.
By Ixa
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Frida Film on Frida Kahlo, Mexican surrealist painter, that emphasises the political aspects of her life as a Communist activist, has a Leon Trotsky character complete with violent icepick scene.


That was a good film - until Trotsky started comparing Stalin with Hitler.
But seeing Trotsky die was satisfying.
:knife:
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By tragicclown
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I actually really liked Frida, I thought it had excellent cinematography, it was so bright and vivid, and the odd animated scenes really gave it the appropriate feeling of slight unreality that is appropriate to a biographical film about a surrealist. It was sort of dumb to cast an attractive person as Kahlo, Kahlo ought to be ugly, but you can just sort of suspend your disbelief...the music is very cool too.


The Trotsky character makes dumb speechs, actually really annoying, I felt like cheering at the :knife: scene; the film is written so you don't like Trotsky. Kahlo has a portriat of Mao in her room in a shot towards the end of thei film.
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By Vincered
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Isnt there a movie about Cuba? I cant remember the name of it.


Bad Boys II.

A very acurate portrayal of Cuba ;)

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