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Plot Summary:
Film is based on the facts of history about the declaration of independence of the Republic of Finland from Russia. The Grand Duchy of Finland was an autonomous part of the Russian Empire until 1917, when the Russian revolution caused the fall of the Empire. On December 6, 1917 Finland declared it's independence. The people of Finland sent an omnipotent delegation to meet with Lenin and the Bolsheviks.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Finland, Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Mommilan veriteot 1917 (1973)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of a civil war, the film follows the last days of Alfred Kordelin, the richest man in Finland.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Finland
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: pre war
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Back to the USSR (1992)
Plot Summary:
A film by Jari Halonen.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Beginning of an Unknown Era (1967)
Plot Summary:
Two young directors adapted the short stories of two Russian authors whose works had been banned for decades, and so their film ended up in the censor’s vault as well – for twenty years. Both tales look back to the post-revolutionary era, and while Angel speaks tragically of the brutality and destruction of the time, The Homeland of Electricity captures its haunting grotesquery.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: anthology
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The Promised Land (1973)
Plot Summary:
During the socialist government of Marmaduke Grove in 1932, a group of villagers decide to take some land in the area of Palmilla. Almost like a mythical journey, problems arise when seated and in a position to bring the socialist ideal in the population. Everything becomes more complicated with rumors that the reactionary forces have overthrown the socialist government. A movie that because of the coup was not released in Chile and was only terminated by Littin in exile in Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Chile, Cuba
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: epic, allegory
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Diary for My Father and My Mother (1990)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Márta Mészáros.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: art house
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Where Once We Walked (2011)
Plot Summary:
Otso "The Main Man" Hultkrantz is playing the leading role of the young Allu Kajander in Where We Once Walked, based on a novel about a civil war raging between the Red and the White in Finland.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, factual, family saga
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Akseli and Elina (1970)
Plot Summary:
A former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime mindsets still linger in the heads of people.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: epic, family saga, pre war
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Here, Beneath the North Star (1968)
Plot Summary:
Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although it gives us a good look at the society at whole. While the class struggle depends, people of the village are driven to bloody civil war.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 186 min
Plot tags: epic
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Lenin in Poland (1966)
Plot Summary:
The life of the great Bolshevik leader before the Russian revolution is chronicled in this bio-pic. Much of the tale centers on his exile in Poland where Lenin becomes friends with two peasants. The little girl has a strong belief in the nationalist cause. Later Lenin hears she was killed for withholding information about him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union, Poland
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Lenin in Paris (1981)
Plot Summary:
1910 lernen sich Lenin und Inès Armand in Paris kennen. Inès Armand war dorthin aus der Verbannung (Archangelsk) geflohen und gründete mit Lenin die Parteischule von Longjumeau. In Jutkevitchs Film bildet die fiktive Liebesgeschichte zwischen Inès Armand und dem jungen Revolutionär Trofimoff den Leitfaden.... Nach Marina Vlady ("Sujet für eine Kurzgeschichte") war Claude Jade der zweite französische Star Jutkvitchs. Nach Claude Jade spielte Dominique Sanda die Inès Armand in dem TV-Film "Der Zug" von Damiano Damiani.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 106 min
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Two Lines in Small Font (1981)
Plot Summary:
Film by Melnikov.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union, East Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Voto + Fusil (1971)
Plot Summary:
The political evolution in Chile seeing from three different times: 1937, 1947 and 1970. A film that shows how a revolution cannot be accomplished by electoral means, and how the wealthy class will always attempt to destroy that revolution, with the help of the armed forces, as soon as their privileges are threatened.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags:
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Seven Songs from the Tundra (2000)
Plot Summary:
Finland's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2000.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Nahapet (1977)
Plot Summary:
Story of a strong-willed man, Nahapet, who lost his family during the 1915 Genocide is an eternal story of resurrection.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Famine '33 (1991)
Plot Summary:
The film about the Holodomor famine in Ukraine, based on the novel 'The Yellow Prince' by Vasyl Barka. The film is told through the lives of the Katrannyk family of six. It relies more on images than on words shot in black-and-white.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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Lyubov Yarovaya (1970)
Plot Summary:
This film is set in the time of the Russian Civil War, after the October revolution of 1917. The communist forces are losing a battle over town. They must blow up the strategic bridge, but the explosion is prevented by one anticommunist man, who is posing as a communist commissar. His wife, Lyubov Yarovaya, discovers him. He is asking for her forgiveness, but she is uncompromising and ruthless.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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The Eternal Road (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on true events an epic story of one man's struggle for survival. Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, where cruelty seems to know no end, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may. Hope dies last.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Finland, Estonia, Sweden
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, rough, thought provoking, suspenseful, touching
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Mother (1990)
Plot Summary:
The social ferment in late 19th century Russia which led to the 1917 Russian Revolution is movingly portrayed in this lengthy historical drama, which is very faithful to the 1907 novel The Mother by the celebrated Marxist writer Maxim Gorky (1868-1936). In the story, "the mother" (Inna Tchourikova) has no other recourse than to watch her decent, kindly husband turn into an animalistic, drunken brute as a result of working in the inhuman conditions of a steel mill in the town of Sormovo. When he begins to express his suppressed rage by beating her, she is defended by her teenaged son Pavel (depicted Viktor Rakov as an adult, Sacha Chichonok as a boy). After his father's death, Pavel is forced to go to work in the same factory. However, Pavel and his friends begin investigating Marxism and socialist thought, and work to organize their fellow workers.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union, Italy
Duration: 200 min
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Assassin of the Tsar (1991)
Plot Summary:
A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiarities of the psyche of a patient who believes that he is Yakov Yurovsky, the man who assassinated the last Russian tsar. In the course of their conversations it transpires that the patient is a kind of philosopher, not without a gift for suggestion. In a while the doctor himself falls under his patient’s influence: he tends to relive that fatal night of June 16-17, 1918 when, without any investigation or trial, Tsar Nicholas II, who had recently abdicated, was murdered, together with his wife, daughters and incurably ill heir. Soon the doctor realizes that the tragedy of the last Russian tsar is in part his own tragedy, too.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 936
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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My Grandmother Fanny Kaplan (2016)
Plot Summary:
The film focuses on the little-known love affair of the terrorist Fanny Kaplan with the brother of Vladimir Lenin, Dmitriy Ilyich Ulyanov, and questions whether she really tried to assassinate Lenin in 1918.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Lenin: The Train (1988)
Plot Summary:
March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zürich Germany and Sweden to Sint-Petersburg. The outlaws stand under the guidance of Vladimir J. Lenin. Two senior officers support the revolutionary bomb "to ensure that everything runs smoothly. Yet there are some unpleasant clashes between Socialists and enthusiastic workers who are worried about the war. During train travel there comes an end to Lenin's affair with the gracious Inessa, and his wife Nadja is prepared take back him. The triumphant entrance in St. Petersburg will exceed all expectations.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France, Spain, Austria, West Germany
Duration: 198 min
Plot tags: philosophical, political, vintage
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Man of Iron (1981)
Plot Summary:
In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends Winkel, a weak, alcoholic TV hack, to Gdansk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers, particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an articulate worker whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews the people surrounding Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: political, thought provoking, serious, realistic, contemplative, crying
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Rasputin (1981)
Plot Summary:
Details the life of the Russian monk Rasputin. The film shows his rise to power and how it corrupted him. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, disturbing, atmospheric, spiritual, rough, bleak, captivating, epic, thought provoking
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Kingmaker (2022)
Plot Summary:
Dreaming of changing the world, SEO Chang-dae takes part in KIM Woon-bum’s political campaign. To resist the current dictatorial ruling party, SEO adopts a very aggressive propaganda campaign, and it makes KIM become the strongest candidate in the opposition party. When ambitious SEO believes that unjustified means is necessary for politics, KIM has a firm belief that it is not real politics. While their conflict deepens, the ruling party secretly contacts SEO to win the next presidential election.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Drama, History
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, political
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The Romanovs: An Imperial Family (2000)
Plot Summary:
The story of the last year and a half of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from the February Revolution of 1917 to their execution in July 1918.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating
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The Official Story (1985)
Plot Summary:
After the end of the Dirty War, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Argentina
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: political, captivating, sincere, suspenseful, disturbing, sad, emotional, realistic, light, epic
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Rosa Luxemburg (1986)
Plot Summary:
Wronke Prison, 1916. Social democrat Rosa Luxemburg faces a mock execution. Twenty years earlier, Rosa's political gifts are acknowledged by everyone, as she struggles for democratic government in Germany and revolution in Poland. There she works closely with Leo Jogiches. Their political activity creates some difficulty for their personal relationship... As international tensions rise, Rosa makes speeches denouncing war and militarism. She seems too radical for her fellow Socialists. She meets Karl Liebknecht. When World War I begins, Rosa and Karl are united in opposition.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: West Germany, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: political, philosophical, suspense, political thriller, tension, masterpiece
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The Young Karl Marx (2017)
Plot Summary:
26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the British working class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx’s new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and the police’s repression, riots and political upheavals, they will lead the labor movement during its development into a modern era.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: political, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, philosophical, social, independent film, historical drama, informative
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1900 (1976)
Plot Summary:
Set in Bertolucci's ancestral region of Emilia, the film chronicles the lives of two men during the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half on the 20th century.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 317 min
Plot tags: epic, disturbing, controversial, compassionate, thought provoking, serious, realistic, captivating, political, stylized
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Reds (1981)
Plot Summary:
A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 195 min
Plot tags: epic, political, tense, sentimental, serious, captivating, atmospheric, breathtaking, philosophical, road movie