There are films that you want to watch over and over again. Of course, entire creative groups worked on the creation of such pictures, but, undoubtedly, if the whole process was not led by a man of talent and genius, such success would not have been possible.
- Eldar Ryazanov
Eldar Ryazanov is probably the most popular director. After all, if his name is in the credits, everyone will see the picture. Suffice it to say, for example, that generations of our fellow citizens have for many years celebrated the most beloved and traditionally family New Year's Eve with its films. In addition to the amazing "Carnival Night", "Irony of Destiny, or with a light steam!", "Service Romance", "Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia", "Beware of the Car" Eldar Alexandrovich created more than 200 author's television programs.
2. Leonid Gaidai
Leonid Iovovovich opened a new genre of folk comedy, in which no one worked before him. In Soviet cinema, it was customary to shoot ideologically mature, boring films, and Gaidai, who grew up on films with Charlie Chaplin and adored this character, dreamed of making comedies - lively, funny.
His dream came true: his films "The Diamond Hand", "The Prisoner of the Caucasus", "Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Occupation" became truly popular and beloved by many generations. Although his colleagues and film critics did not take Gaidai's work seriously, his films remain popular to this day.
3. Igor Maslennikov
Everybody knows and, undoubtedly, loves the domestic adaptation of a series of books by Arthur Conan Doyle about the eccentric detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson. Igor Maslennikov's production is considered to be one of the best even among the Englishmen, and in many respects, it is the merit of the director.
4. Sergei Bondarchuk
Sergei Bondarchuk left behind real masterpieces of cinema. In terms of large-scale productions, he had no equal. And now it is unlikely that there will be filmmakers who can surpass him in the skill of creating deep epic films. His films such as "They fought for the Motherland", "Human Fate", "Young Guard", forever entered into the history of national cinema, and the grand scenes with thousands of crowds in the "War and Peace", "Waterloo" remembers every spectator.
5. George Danelia
The Soviet actor, director, and screenwriter Georgy Nikolaevich Danelia is the author of such masterpieces of cinema as "I'm walking around Moscow", "Mimino", "Passport", "Kin-dza-dza-dza! His filmography is the most valuable chronicle of the whole country. Danelia's paintings will not only make you laugh and grieve, they will not just fascinate you with wit, game conditions, brilliance of performance and "make you think about life". No, they themselves - this life, figuratively expressed on the screen.
6. Andrei Tarkovsky
Tarkovsky is a true legend in Soviet cinema. His contribution to world art is hard to overestimate. The films "Ivanovo Detstvo", "Solaris", "Sacrifice" are still classics of Soviet and European cinema. The Tarkovsky director is known in all corners of the world. His films are translated into dozens of languages. These are films about eternal topics, which people think about anywhere in the world: about the weakness and strength of man, about nature, about the motherland, about the love of her mother to her son, about fate.
7. Alexander Rowe
Good storyteller Alexander Arturovich Row has known us all since childhood. 16 fairy tales, which he created, are classics of children's films. "The Kingdom of Krivoyh Mirrors," "Fire, Water, and Copper Tubes," "Vasilisa the Beautiful," it seems these films will be watched by children at all times.
8. Mark Zakharov
Zakharov is the only Soviet director who managed to make a show of Hollywood quality out of a theatre. His performances are still going on with sell-outs, be it a new production or a product of thirty years ago. Mark Anatolyevich's films "The Munchausen", "Juno and Avos", "The Formula of Love" and "12 Chairs" are still loved by the audience.
9. Vladimir Menshov
"Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears," "Love and Pigeons," "Shirley Soaps," At home, Menshov's films are disassembled for quotations, they are reviewed dozens of times, and the West considers no less than an encyclopedia of the Soviet life.
10. Stanislav Rostotsky
Stanislav Rostotsky's films raised more than one generation. Surprisingly, but even today's young people, who prefer the series even to the classics of Hollywood, know and enjoy watching "We'll live to see Monday", "White Beam Black Ear" - pictures that have made the name of the director immortal. Even if he had created only one film based on Boris Vasiliev's book "The dawns are quiet here", he would have taken one of the most prominent places in the history of Soviet and Russian cinema.