The genre of children's cinema was very popular in the USSR.Each second film, which opens onto the big screens of the cinemas of the Soviet Union, was filmed for children. With the collapse of a powerful country, this genre was somehow forgotten. At present, filmmakers only occasionally shoot children's films, trusting contemporary children with foreign-made pictures. Agree, the last few generations have grown on "Harry Potter" and "Star wars".
During the Soviet Union, dozens of good family films were shot. So let's remember children's films of the USSR list of the best .
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Welcome, or No Trespassing Entry 1964
The picture that opens the top of the best children's films, is the full-length debut of the brilliant Soviet director Helen Klimov. The film tells of a boy who was unjustly expelled from a children's camp, but he secretly stayed there. His friends are forced to protect the guy from the evil administration.
Children and adults have seen this movie differently. If for young spectators it was a picture of friendship and comradeship, adults easily identified in the plot a satire on Soviet double standards and bureaucracy. Perhaps, the tape would not have come out in a wide rental. Soviet censorship would not allow such a provocative picture to be viewed. But Nikita Khrushchev himself gave a "good" to the screening of the film. By the way, the head of the CPSU Central Committee was dismissed several days after the premiere of the film.
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Scarecrow 1983
Rolan Bykov is known as the greatest comedian and director, but it was he who put the most piercing Soviet drama for the children "Scarecrow".The picture of a girl who took on someone else's betrayal and became an outcast, subjected to bullying, in the year of exit has not gained popularity with the viewer. On the contrary, the film was condemned for cruelty, which children can not be shown.
Opponents of the picture, which occupies 9th place in the list of the best children's films of the USSR, said that in the Soviet Union there were no such peer outrage against peers, and the film provokes the public. But they had nothing to oppose to the statement of the author of the book "Scarecrow", according to which the picture was taken, that he wrote his creation on the basis of events that happened to his granddaughter.
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The Elusive Avengers. Trilogy 1966
If you thought that the trilogy started shooting in Hollywood, we dare to disappoint you. Long before the "Lords of the Rings" and "Matrices" Edmond Keosayan made three films about children fighting at the Civil War front.
If the picture "Ivan's Childhood" was filmed about children for adults: differed gloom and cruelty. That in this trilogy is the opposite. There are much fewer non-teaching skills than the crazy and cheerful adventures that have happened to the guys.
According to the Hollywood tradition, the third part of the "Elusive", ranked 8th best children's films, turned out to be much worse than the first two.
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A guest from the future 1985 year
Words from the song "Beautiful far" are familiar to all residents of Russia, whose age exceeded 20. Despite the internal processes that were gaining momentum inside the country, which led to the collapse of communist ideology, the picture, which is one of the best children's films,instantly received the status of a cult. Actress starring Natalia Guseva became the most coveted girl of the Soviet Union. And the performer of the role of the robot Eugene Gerasimov, thanks to his brilliant game, got a seat in the City Duma.
But the main victors were script writer and author of the original source Kir Bulychev, and film director Pavel Arsenov, famous for the tale "The Deer King".
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You did not even dream about 1980 year
In Soviet cinema, the first love was shown in a joking manner, they say, these are false feelings, but only echoes of experience. But in the picture "you never dreamed" the opposite is true. The film tells about high school students in love with each other. The plot of the film, which occupies the 6th place in the top of the best children's paintings, was taken from the book by Galina Shcherbakova "Roman and Julia", which she wrote, inspired by the story of Romeo and Juliet. To avoid analogies with Shakespeare, the filmmakers changed the names of the main characters. For example, Julia became Katya.
A 16-year-old schoolgirl was played by 23-year-old Tatyana Aksyuta. But the high school student actually played a high school student. According to experts, Nikita Mikhailovsky coped with his role on a professional level, not inherent in many actors of that era.
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Adventure Electronics 1979 year
Mini-series about friendship between a guy and a robot occupies the middle of the list of the best children's films of the USSR.Stunning in heartfelt story about Electronics, fell in love with all spectators of the Soviet Union. And the main song "The winged swing" instantly surfaced in the head at the mention of the name Syroezhkin. It is interesting that the action takes place in Moscow, but they shot "Electronics" in Odessa. This was not liked by those who knew the capital very well.
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Moscow-Cassiopeia 1973
In Soviet films, cosmonauts were portrayed as superheroes without fear and reproach. And it was not surprising, after the war, the heroes of the country were representatives of this profession. Only Tarkovsky in his "Solaris" dared to present the astronaut with a man with his fears and weaknesses. The rest were forbidden. But director Richard Viktorov came out of such a situation with brilliance, sending to conquer the space of children. In the picture, which occupies the fourth place in the list of the best children's films of the USSR, there is a place for jokes and scientific observations, fears and exploits. It was a Soviet response to the American "Star Trek", where, at times, adult characters behaved like children. Here, the opposite is true.
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The Adventures of Buratino 1975
Every American viewer watched at least once a cartoon about Pinocchio, shot by the great Walt Disney. In our country a wooden boy is also known, but he is different from his American colleague. A two-part musical about Buratino, who took the bronze rating of the best children's films, is familiar to every citizen of the Soviet Union. And the song "Bura-ti-no" instantly became a children's hit. Interestingly, the role of the cat Basilio and the fox Alice played Rolan Bykov and Elena Sanayeva, being husband and wife. And turtle Tortill was supposed to be played by Faina Ranevskaya, but it did not grow together. The woman was afraid for her health, because the shooting took place in the faraway republic of Belarus.
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The Kingdom of Curved Mirrors 1963
Alexandra Rowe's film is permeated with communist pathos. Therefore, he does not look with such feelings now as before. But all the same, the director made a bright film with great actors.
The action of the film, which took the silver rating of the best Soviet children's paintings, takes place in the world of Curved mirrors, where everything is distorted, represented on the contrary. The lean here are shown plump, evil-good, high-low. Olga's girl gets into this world, where she encounters her double, embodying all her worst qualities. Looking at herself from the outside, and analyzing her own shortcomings, she, with her understudy, saves the inhabitants of the kingdom from spiteful aristocrats.
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Adventures of Petrov and Vasechkin, ordinary and incredible 1983 year
The way to the big screen for Petrov and Vasechkin was unusual. These characters Vladimir Alenikov originally came up with for Yeralash. The guys liked spectators so much that it was decided to launch a full-length film about the adventures of schoolchildren. The two-part comedy immediately gained success with the mass audience. And a year later the continuation of the picture, which is the leader of the rating of the best children's films of the USSR, "Vacations of Petrov and Vasechkin", was released.
Music from films enjoyed no less popularity than the films themselves.
