# Any others films like "Come and See"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 12, 2016, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-others-films-like-come-and-see/771679 "2016-11-12T19:35:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nate/32/13085_2.png) [@nate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nate)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-others-films-like-come-and-see/771679/1 "2016-11-12T19:35:51Z")
…meaning, are there any other really great films to come out of the Soviet Union? I think this was one of the most disturbing films I’ve ever seen, but in a good way, Some subtle jarring scenes have remained in my conscience for months. It’s eerie and seems pretty realistic considered its labeled as a propaganda film. Are there any other films from the USSR that are any good? ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-others-films-like-come-and-see/771679/2 "2016-11-12T19:50:49Z")
Is \*Come and See \*really classed as propaganda? I finally saw it last month and was also impressed (and disturbed) by it. As for great Soviet films: Eisenstein’s _Battleship Potemkin_ is amazing and massively influential. It’s like watching _Citizen Kane_ for the first time, it looks like a whole bunch of cinematic cliches thrown together until you realise that this is the source of those cliches. I haven’t seen the 1960s _War and Peace_ series but I think it’s highly regarded. And I’ve seen some amazing passages from _I am Cuba_, but haven’t watched the whole thing yet. [Check out the opening credits.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOLVm_9UcRw) ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-others-films-like-come-and-see/771679/3 "2016-11-12T19:54:37Z")
Andrei Tarkovsky has some good ones. [Stalker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film)), which inspired the Ukrainian video game series [Solaris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(1972_film)) ([earlier, less famous one](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(1968_film))) - I’ve been holding off seeing these because the American Clooney version was so boring, but maybe I should. Lots of other non-Soviet Iron Curtain films, though you didn’t specifically asked about it. ---
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-others-films-like-come-and-see/771679/4 "2016-11-12T19:58:05Z")
The Irony of Fate is one of the most beloved of all Soviet movies, and deservedly so. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-others-films-like-come-and-see/771679/5 "2016-11-12T20:31:06Z")
Sure. _[Don Kikhot](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050326/)_ is probably the best adaptation of _Don Quixote_ next to _Man of La Mancha_ – and it stuck close to the book. Sergei Eisenstein was one of the world’s top directors. In addition to _Battleship Potemkin_ – a hugely influential and truly great film – _[Alexander Nevsky](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029850/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_17)_ is also a great one (the battle scene in _Mulan_ cribs directly from it).