# Favorite Eastern European Movies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 16, 2019, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-eastern-european-movies/840353 "2019-09-16T23:56:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-eastern-european-movies/840353/41 "2019-09-19T16:29:19Z")
The Round-Up (1966) is really good… 8/10 ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-eastern-european-movies/840353/42 "2019-09-20T08:53:59Z")
Do the films of [Jan Švankmajer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_%C5%A0vankmajer) count? I haven’t seen any of his feature-length work but his animated short films are strikingly good. His influence on the likes of Terry Gilliam and Don Hertzfeldt is obvious. ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-eastern-european-movies/840353/43 "2019-09-20T12:58:07Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Do the films of [Jan Švankmajer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_%C5%A0vankmajer) count? I haven’t seen any of his feature-length work but his animated short films are strikingly good. His influence on the likes of Terry Gilliam and Don Hertzfeldt is obvious. Sure, why not? I saw a co-production yesterday, “90 Degrees In The Shade” which takes place in Eastern Europe, but its all in English, some probably dubbed. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-eastern-european-movies/840353/44 "2019-09-20T19:12:01Z")
I liked “Black Cat, White Cat,” but it’s been a long time since I’ve seen it. ---
**Author:** ![mjmlabs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mjmlabs/32/69_2.png) [@mjmlabs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmlabs)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-eastern-european-movies/840353/45 "2019-09-20T19:42:23Z")
Howzabout [Who Wants to Kill Jessie?](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125301/) That one was pretty worthwhile, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2019, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-eastern-european-movies/840353/46 "2019-09-21T01:16:32Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Do the films of [Jan Švankmajer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_%C5%A0vankmajer) count? My earlier mention of him wasn’t discounted, so I would assume so. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-eastern-european-movies/840353/47 "2019-09-21T15:49:44Z")
Adoption (1975) ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2019, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-eastern-european-movies/840353/48 "2019-09-21T19:59:43Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Well, it was produced after the reunification, but it’s about East German: _[Goodbye, Lenin!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Bye,_Lenin!)_. It’s about a woman who is a diehard Communist, but who falls into a coma and awakes after the reunification. Warned that a shock could cause another heart attack, her son works to pretend that East Berlin is still under communist control. Did you see “The Edukators”? It is similar, and I think even better. Same star, too, (Daniel Bruhl?). I just saw “The Red and the White” - 7.5/10, fine movie. My only problem was not knowing all the sides, because I’m reading subtitles, and there’s the pro and anti-Bolsheviks, and then you add Hungarians, and both sides speak the other language at times. It was a personal war movie. It seems like most of the movies that take place over 100 years ago spend too much effort emphasizing the dress, costumes, speech. And then I think “This was made about 10 years after the USSR invaded Hungary”. ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-eastern-european-movies/840353/49 "2019-09-25T18:48:31Z")
Back to mention Peter Solan’s Boxer a smrt (The Boxer and Death)(1963) which I found out today was restored by the Slovak Film Institute in 2016. I also see Wajda’s Man of… films were mentioned, but at least 3 more deserve a shout out: Kanal (1957), Ashes and Diamonds (1958), and Innocent Sorcerers (1960). These all appear on this list, which is rather decent as far as controversy-stirring lists go, especially as you’ve asked for older films. Generally it takes years to identify film diamonds, but this is especially the case for underappreciated Eastern Europe. Much easier to dismiss with jokes than to learn anything about. > **[Top 100 Eastern European Films - SCFZ Poll](https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list/top-100-eastern-european-films-scfz-poll/)** > > At the Super Champion Film Zone film forum, we held a poll to discover our community's favourite films ever made from Eastern Europe. Only films from Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic (and Czechoslovakia) were eligible, since other... ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-eastern-european-movies/840353/50 "2019-09-25T21:41:20Z")
I highly recommend “Yesterday Girl”… Entire movie link down below [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/DLhyQqA2Rjs/hqdefault.jpg "Yesterday Girl 1966") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLhyQqA2Rjs) ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-eastern-european-movies/840353/51 "2019-10-04T10:43:54Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > The Polish holocaust film Korczak > …[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyBwsoD-AV0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyBwsoD-AV0) ☹ > [@](#): > > Video unavailable > This video is not available. I assume that’s shorthand for the old message: “This video is not available in your country.” One of these days, I must learn how to use VPN. :o ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-eastern-european-movies/840353/52 "2019-10-04T13:51:45Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > ☹ > I assume that’s shorthand for the old message: “This video is not available in your country.” > > One of these days, I must learn how to use VPN. :o Just a quick synopsis: Its the true story of a Polish doctor caring for Jewish kids during the Holocaust who chose to go to the gas chamber with them rather than abandon them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-eastern-european-movies/840353.md?page=2)