May 9 is coming, the great day of the Victory of the Soviet people and their allies over Nazi Germany. Many films have been shot about this epoch-making event, and most of them date back to the times of the USSR.
Having studied the rating of Kinopoisk, we have selected the top 10 best films about the Great Patriotic War... They foster patriotism in the younger generation and remind the generations that have already grown up of the feat that our fathers and grandfathers performed.
10. The Living and the Dead (1963)
Kinopoisk rating - 8.22
IMDb rating - 7.50
The rating of the best films about the Great Patriotic War opens with a drama based on the trilogy of the same name by Konstantin Simonov. The journalist Ivan Sintsov, who is on leave from the news of the beginning of the war, witnesses the painful events of 1941. The Soviet army retreats, suffers heavy losses, and Sintsov sees how the war divides people not along ethnic or political grounds, but into the living and the dead.
9. In war as in war (1968)
Kinopoisk rating - 8.22
IMDb rating - 8.0
Come on, Maleshkin! Well done, Maleshkin! Click here, Maleshkin! These phrases immediately come to mind when it comes to the film "In War As Not War". In the center of events - the crew of the self-propelled gun mount, with their everyday and combat life. It has a place for everyday exploits, humor and songs. And even though this film, containing only a few days of the war, is an artistic fiction, you believe in its heroes. For this, first of all, we should thank such actors as Mikhail Kononov, Mikhail Gluzsky, Oleg Borisov and Viktor Pavlov.
8. Soldier's father (1964)
Kinopoisk rating - 8.23
IMDb rating - 8.70
An elderly Georgian Georgy Makharashvili goes to the hospital to see his wounded son. It would seem an unpretentious story. However, Sergo Zakariadze's excellent acting, the kindness, courage and wisdom of his character make the film "Soldier's Father" one of the masterpieces of the collection of films about the war. Makharashvili walks with Soviet troops all the way to Berlin, taking care of his comrades in arms and hoping to see his son alive.
7. Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
Kinopoisk rating - 8.24
IMDb rating - 8.10
A young soldier Alexei Skvortsov performs a feat - knocks out two German tanks. For this, the command lets the young soldier go home so that he can see his mother. Along the way, kind and naive Alyosha meets different people, good and bad, and finds a girl with whom he falls in love.
One of the best films about the Great Patriotic War shows viewers life "in the outback", with small dramas of individual people, whose characters are deeply and in detail worked out. And all of them are united by one big drama - war.
6. The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
Kinopoisk rating - 8.29
IMDb rating - 8.30
This film is not about the horrors of war, but about the fate of two loving people who were separated by the war. The tragic events became a test for the stamina and spiritual qualities of the main characters.
The Cranes Are Flying was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and was extremely popular with French audiences.
5. The fate of man (1959)
Kinopoisk rating - 8.36
IMDb rating - 8.10
It is difficult to remain a kind and correct person, having gone through terrible hardships in a concentration camp, having lost your family and home. However, the hero of the film manages to maintain courage and resilience, despite all the trials. And the front-line soldier finds a new meaning in life in the boy Vanya, whom the war left an orphan.
4. They fought for the Motherland (1975)
Kinopoisk rating - 8.37
IMDb rating - 8.10
Someone remembered Yuri Nikulin as a "sunny clown", Vyacheslav Tikhonov as an intellectual intelligence officer, and Vasily Shukshin as a driver, Pashka Kolokolnikov. But they also had other roles - much darker, strict, such as one of the best films about the Second World War. The plot of the film tells about the feat of the soldiers who defended the approaches to Stalingrad. Each of the heroes shown in They Fought for the Motherland is allowed to fully reveal themselves. Their dialogues are not filled with the pathos characteristic of Western war films. The main advantage of the film, based on the novel by Mikhail Sholokhov, is its acting. Thanks to her, "They Fought for the Motherland" remains one of the favorite war films of Russians.
3. Officers (1971)
Kinopoisk rating - 8.45
IMDb rating - 7.80
After watching this film, in which two handsome actors - Georgy Yumatov and Vasily Lanovoy - starred, Soviet boys dreamed of becoming military men. There is such a profession - to defend the Motherland.
The main characters will go a long way - from battles with the Basmachs in the 20s of the twentieth century to the Great Patriotic War, they will know the death of friends and love. "Officers" is an example of real male friendship and the most sincere human relations, captured on film.
2. The Dawns Here Are Quiet (1972)
Kinopoisk rating - 8.50
IMDb rating - 8.30
In second place in the list of the best films about the war of 1941-45. is a war drama. It tells about the courage of ordinary Soviet female anti-aircraft gunners, who were opposed by trained German paratroopers. This is a movie that clearly shows how terrible and unjust a war can be, and how Soviet people were ready to wipe out fascism from the face of the earth at the cost of their lives.
1. Only "old men" go into battle (1973)
Kinopoisk rating - 8.71
IMDb rating - 8.50
The second squadron of Captain Titarenko is the most "singing" in his aviation regiment. And she fights with the enemy even better than singing songs. And between air battles, the fighters have a place for both jokes and love experiences. After all, the war will not last forever, only music will last forever.
The heroes of this film are so colorful that they are etched into the memory from the first minute of viewing. Together with them, viewers of all ages will laugh and cry, perceiving the "old people" and "yellow-mouths" as their own friends. And the song "Smuglyanka" has become the hallmark of this movie.
You may be indignant: why did not everyone's favorite "17 Moments of Spring" enter the list of the best films about the Second World War? The fact is that this is not a separate film, but a series.