Thread: NonRussian films (work in progress)

Originally Posted by Johanna

Rockzmom you are amazing!

I have wanted to see some of these films with subs, but I don't know how to find subs other than the standard subtitle sites, and they don't have a lot of Russian subs.
This is amazing.

Johanna....

Make certain that if you have not yet done so... you watch "Irony of Fate" between now and New Years! I plan on watching this one again!!

"Irony of Fate", (Ирония судьбы, или С лёгким паром) 1975
(Romantic Comedy)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_of_Fate

(This film is traditionally broadcast in Russia and some other former Soviet republics every New Year's Eve)

You can download this video (avi-file with English subtitles, DivX or XViD, 25 fps) from Russian Yandex-server. It's very easy.
How to download a movie:
1. Enter the following link:
Part 1: http://narod.ru/disk/13720593000/The_Ir ... 1.avi.html
Part 2: http://narod.ru/disk/13717599000/The_Ir ... 2.avi.html
2. Enter the numbers placed in the window over the green button.
3. Press the green button "СКАЧАТЬ".
4. A page will open with the link starting with http//. Press the link.
Notes: If you don't want to install Yandex Bar, please remove the sign from the control box (into the yellow background). Yandex Bar performs a function for downloading without using control numbers, i.e. next time, if you want to download any file from Yandex-server, you’ll get the download link without entering control numbers.
5 A window will open. Choose "Save".
6. Download the movie.
7. Enjoy. Part 1 file size 1.35 gb, Part 2 file size 1.14 gb

OR WATCH ONLINE AT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rg3OC6XJY0 Part 1/2 (1/10)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRgLerlnjmo Part 2/2 (1/

"12 месяцев" ("Twelve months"), a beautiful New Year children fairytale written by S. Marshak, I liked this cartoon a lot in my childhood:

part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq0hUk2yKr8
part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4om61vEuLU
part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz1heLLKJIk
part 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLmNrYR4Hwc
part 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1M7HuqLJo8

I'v found an anime version of this tale on youtube recently and was amaized watching it, it's even more close to the original book than the Soviet version!

part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=602Ez2VoJ4I
part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L9K5Ukjdl8
part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiCfZ5u285Q
part 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk6960oRC7E
part 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDniFgF-vpY
part 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE8GVuemQ-g

Originally Posted by rockzmom

watch "Irony of Fate" between now and New Years! I plan on watching this one again!!

Wow, thank you soooo much! Last time I saw that film was probably in the early 90s or something like that. I will watch it, for sure. I am going to find some Russian subtitles too, if I can, and expand my vocabulary a bit.

For learners: I have come to the conclusion that you can learn a lot by first watching the films with English subs, and then with Russian subs... Guaranteed to teach you at least a few new words. I recently watched an old Russian film in this way called "Gentlemen of Fortune". Class film and incidentally several characters speak quite slowly most of the time, and use very basic vocabulary. With Russian subtitles I was able to understand a lot of what was said.

I think, maybe, well yes.. I am finally getting around to watching "The Meeting Place Cannot/Should Not Be Changed" ... I know, me with the memory issues picks these hard things to watch. Well, I get to stop and start and watch it over and over until I figure it out and as I can watch them whenever I want and in bed and then ... I can ask you all for help if I still don't understand... it all works out ...right???

Anyway, rightaway because I still have not learned anything besides what, Спасибо and пока, I am having some problems... will someone help me?

The opening song, in "general" what it is about?
What does the sign at :21 seconds say?
What does the big sign at 1:12 seconds say?
Room 13, they zoom in yet don't translate what the room is for at 3:07... so what is that Office?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImeK_EUu314

thanks! or Спасибо!

Originally Posted by rockzmom

I think, maybe, well yes.. I am finally getting around to watching "The Meeting Place Cannot/Should Not Be Changed"

Great. It's a rare case when the movie is much better than the book.

The opening song, in "general" what it is about?

We stormed the city of Orel and marched through the city and we read the name of the last street. It has the name of Bryansk. Thus our next destination is Bryansk. Then we stormed Bryansk and marched through the city and read the name of the last street it was named after Minsk... then we stormed to Minsk and the last street was named after the city of Brest... then we stormed Brest and the last street was named after Lublin, then Warsaw, then Berlin.

http://9may.ru/songs/m1597
http://9may.ru/songs_store/naberlin.mp3


What does the sign at :21 seconds say?


Glory to the victorious warrior.

What does the big sign at 1:12 seconds say?

It reads: We have won.

Room 13, they zoom in yet don't translate what the room is for at 3:07... so what is that Office?

Gangsters fighting department. G. Zheglov

Thank you! Ramil!

I am just amazed by the ice cream sandwich maker thingy at 8:50.... has anyone actually seen one in person? Is it still in use today?

Originally Posted by rockzmom

Thank you! Ramil!

I am just amazed by the ice cream sandwich maker thingy at 8:50.... has anyone actually seen one in person? Is it still in use today?

At first I thought you were asking about the icecream itself. It's been very popular in Soviet times although I keep seeing it even novadays occasionally. It's not really a sandwich, just two thin wafers and a brick of icecream between them.



Of course those ones in my childhood vere tastier.

What concerns the 'maker thingy' - I don't think it is used now. There are sanitary regulations for one thing and besides, it's cheaper to do such 'sandwiches' at the factory.

Originally Posted by Ramil

Originally Posted by rockzmom

Thank you! Ramil!

I am just amazed by the ice cream sandwich maker thingy at 8:50.... has anyone actually seen one in person? Is it still in use today?

At first I thought you were asking about the icecream itself. It's been very popular in Soviet times although I keep seeing it even novadays occasionally. It's not really a sandwich, just two thin wafers and a brick of icecream between them.

Ahhh... we call them "ice cream sandwiches" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cream_sandwich

Ice cream sandwiches are frozen desserts composed of a layer of ice cream of any variety "sandwiched" between two cookies or slices of cake

They now come with cookies too, but they just never seem to be as good as the old fashioned ones!

hehehe...as it is Christmas Eve here in the States... take a break from the traditional "It's A Wonderful Life" and enjoy "The Worst Noel" with Al Bundy and his family! http://www.megavideo.com/?v=928VTNYX

Here is the script if you need it or want it: http://www.albundy.net/marriedaniac/...ipt/0813t.html

Originally Posted by rockzmom

The opening song, in "general" what it is about?

That's not an opening song, Rockzmom. It's just a background song, it plays from a street radio loudspeaker.

BTW, Merry Gregorian Christmas to everyone!

Originally Posted by Basil77

Originally Posted by rockzmom

The opening song, in "general" what it is about?

That's not an opening song, Rokzmom. It's just a background song, it plays from a street radio loudspeaker.

BTW, Merry Gregorian Christmas to everyone!

Basil, thanks for clarifying....
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Okay folks there is one major advantage to not being able to sleep at nights... watching the shows on TV! And this one goes hand-in-hand with Married with Children!

We've talked about 3rd Rock From the Sun before, so if any of you newbies don't know about this show, please go back in this thread and learn about it first before watching this episode, trust me it will help!

The Solomons experience their first Christmas. Merry Watching!
part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gsNNcCpUws
part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CgHUO8ANk4
part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ffLNyBJ2W0

okay, next question about "The Meeting Place Cannot/Should Not Be Changed" ...

what is the book at 3:33? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbkT1TUcRIk
Note to anyone who might want to make subtitles... please include these little types of details!

Also, I know I have asked questions before about the habit of cigarette smokers when I was watching "Seventeen Moments of Spring"... I see that detective Gleb Zheglov (who I am really liking BTW) has a habit of blowing into the ends of his cigarettes. Why does he do this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6WIkIkMlZc start watching at 5:08 and then he takes out another cigarette and does it again. He has a habit of this throughout the episode so far that I have watched. And once again, as I have never smoked, I don't understand why one would do this.

He's reading "Криминалистика" ("Criminalistics") - a textbook on forensic science, investigation and interrogation techniques, etc.

As I'm not a smoker myself, I'm not sure about cigarettes (BTW, I think he smokes "papirosy" - cigarettes without filter). But I've heard that it has something to do with the quality of tobacco filling in Soviet cigarettes. It was either too dense, or maybe vice versa. You had to knead it a little, and to blow into it.

ADDED: Aha! I've found an explanation on the other forum. They do it to blow away the fractions of tobacco, that happen to be in the "filter end" of the cigarette (and since there's no actual filter in 'papirosy', just a holllow paper tube, they can be unpleasant)

Originally Posted by rockzmom

I see that detective Gleb Zheglov (who I am really liking BTW)

If you haven't like him for some reasons, you should imideatily stop watching these series. IMHO if there wasn't Vysоtsky it would be an ordinary crime fiction movie.
About blowing into papyrosses... Sorry, I can't help you with any helpful hints, although beeing a rather heavy cigarette smoker I can't imagine why they were blowing into... Although I had seen this many times in my childhood, and even was wondering, like "why adults are blowing into the paryroses?", I still don't know for what purpose that is done for?

Originally Posted by rockzmom

what is the book at 3:33? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbkT1TUcRIk
Note to anyone who might want to make subtitles... please include these little types of details!

The book is "Криминалистика"="Criminalistics ". I'm agree with birubirFilms that it's not important.

Originally Posted by rockzmom

Also, I know I have asked questions before about the habit of cigarette smokers when I was watching "Seventeen Moments of Spring"... I see that detective Gleb Zheglov (who I am really liking BTW) has a habit of blowing into the ends of his cigarettes. Why does he do this?

Gleb was smoking papirosa (cigarette with a cardboard holder). Tobacco crumbs can get to a smoker's mouth. To avoid that smokers blow or knock them out and deform cardboard holder

Originally Posted by rockzmom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6WIkIkMlZc start watching at 5:08 and then he takes out another cigarette and does it again. He has a habit of this throughout the episode so far that I have watched. And once again, as I have never smoked, I don't understand why one would do this.

He was so distressed, angry, irritated that he just blown tobacco off from his cigarette. You can see it at 5:28

Merry Christmas everyone!
С Рождеством!


Rockzmom, now I want to watch Al Bundy and 3rd Rock from the Sun! Too bad I'm at work (and hardly... uhm hard at work...) so I'll have to have some patience. Thanks for the links!

Originally Posted by devochka

Merry Christmas everyone!
С Рождеством!

From me too!
Wow it's so hard to imagine Christmas being a regular day in Russia! In my country we celebrate for 3 days in a row.... But on the other hand, that saves you the super commercialistic and rather tacky build-up to Christmas..

Yesterday when I was at the Swedish Church here in London, I ran into some Finnish people I know. I mentioned that i had partly used my break from work to study Russian, and we started to talk about Russian TV.

Somebody mentioned a series she had watched a bit of, called «Колдовская любовь». I thought sounded good, so when I got home, I found it online and watched a couple of episodes.

From my perspective it was interesting to see the Russian countryside as it looks today, just as much as the plot.

Unfortunately I simply couldn't understand enough to really appreciate the plot --- I was only able to understand the very basics.

Has anyone seen this series?

Originally Posted by Johanna

Originally Posted by devochka

Merry Christmas everyone!
С Рождеством!

From me too!
Somebody mentioned a series she had watched a bit of, called «Колдовская любовь». I thought sounded good, so when I got home, I found it online and watched a couple of episodes.
From my perspective it was interesting to see the Russian countryside as it looks today, just as much as the plot.
Unfortunately I simply couldn't understand enough to really appreciate the plot --- I was only able to understand the very basics.
Has anyone seen this series?

Merry Christmas (to those who celebrate it)!

I loved "Колдовская любовь". viewtopic.php?f=23&t=16126
I haven't watched the second season of it yet. I'll try to find it on-line.

7 невест ефрейтора Збруева / (SEVEN BRIDES OF CORPORAL ZBRUEV), 1971

I found this movie very funny when I watched it the first time, and I wanted to rewatch it since then. It still amazes me that the censors actually authorised such a script in 1971. There are no anti-Soviet sentiments, of course, but the image of the "Soviet soldier" in this movie is not what you can expect. The "proper" protagonist (especially if he/she is a Soviet soldier ) should have been helpful, modest, brave, honest etc., etc., and usually if the protagonist deviated too far from this image it was looked upon by the authorities. It doesn't mean that all the characters in Soviet movies were poster children (far from it) , but you get the idea.

What do we have here? An ordinary guy and an exemplary soldier whose face was on the cover of the "Skilled Warrior" magazine, decides to meet his 7 (seven!) penpals (read 'mail brides') to choose one and only. He's not slimy or indecent, but he's flirty in his clumsy country way (he flirts with ALL the female characters) and naively full of himself, though not disgustingly so (and we later see that he does have many hidden talents).

Just some stray thoughts:

1. CUBAN CIGARS
The first laugh I had was in the beginning, when Zbruev (a showoff that he is) buys CUBAN SIGARS (40 kopecks a piece) in an ordinary train. The cigars were always viewed as something "foreign" (a nesecassary atribute of cartoonish imperialists) and it was beyond weird, that they sold them in shabby train vagons like that.

- Do you have a last year issue of "Skilled Warrior"?
- We don't sell rubbish.
- Your loss.



2.THE DANCE
Upon seeing "Pulp Fiction" I was sure for a long time that Tarantino "borrowed" the dance that V.Vega and Mia performed from that movie!! It's an scene when Zbruev buggs a haughty conductor until she agrees to teach him how to dance.

- What dance is popular among the civilians now?
- "The Leg". It means 'a leg' in English.
- Is it any good?
- It's modern.


Now I see that their dances differ more than I thought, but some funny moments are the same. Like when they take off their shoes for some reason, and make weird hand moves.

3. BRIDES

a) A stranger.
Zbruev was so busy dancing "The leg" that he missed his station, and they've never met.



b) A naive student.
"OMG! Why has he come?" Awkward...



[VIDEO]"Zbruev!"
watch at 3:20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqb4aTKIhmI

c) A famous actress who promptly asks him to do various housework.



d) A gushing and oh-so-romantic librarian, who immediately makes wedding plans.


"I'm always dreaming, dreaming! Tell me, do you want to fly away sometimes ? Does it happen to you?"
"... Aha.. Often."

[VIDEO] "What happened?"
9:06-9:30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMHIMoNXEfo

e) A komsomol activist.
Zbruev is impressed!


Unfortunately, she has a husband and was writing to Zbruev as a part of her work "on establishing connections with army".

f) A nice village girl, who's perfect, but she tells him off when she learns that she's not the only one.


g) ** SPOILERS **
A man! Seriously.

"That was me who wrote to you"



4. Also do not miss SCARY BABOOSHKAS. Hilarious!
5:50-6:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM4HnyqvToY

5. And I love these guys who appear out of the blue throughout the film! They remind me of singing mice from "Babe".
5:45
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMHIMoNXEfo

That's all. I hope you enjoyed it.