The Best Soviet New Year Films

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5 best Soviet films for New Year's mood

Not a single New Year is complete without watching your favorite films that create a festive mood. Now their choice is so huge that each family member chooses a movie to his taste. And before the whole country watched the same film on their television screens. In order to plunge into the pre-holiday atmosphere of the times of the USSR, let us recall the best Soviet New Year's comedies, while watching which you will be charged with positive emotions and have a lot of pleasure.

Irony of Fate or Enjoy Your Bath

Back in the Soviet Union, a tradition was born on the evening of December 31 to watch this film in between slicing boiled carrots, potatoes and eggs for Olivier salad. Knowing the plot by heart, you can start watching it at any time, get distracted, and then start cooking again.

The plot of this romantic comedy is quite typical: two lonely people meet in unusual circumstances and spend New Year's Eve together. The story is set against the backdrop of Moscow in the mid-1970s. A mixture of the real and the unreal, the magic of the Russian winter with its snow, fur hats and the smell of Christmas trees, poetry and prose of everyday life. The main characters are slightly eccentric, weak-willed city dwellers, both live with their mothers, both are lost in the world, both are not very happy.

Ironically, the film was banned for several years during the 1985-1987 anti-alcohol campaign, as the film was believed to promote drunkenness.

Carnival Night

1956, the state film industry released one of the most commercially successful films in its history: the musical comedy Carnival Night directed by Eldar Ryazanov. This film is proof that Soviet cinema could make musicals that are not inferior in spirit to Hollywood ones.

Ryazanov became famous for being able to slyly ridicule the stupidity of apparatchiks and officials in this motion picture. Actor Igor Ilyinsky plays pompous comrade Ogurtsov, who was appointed responsible for the New Year's party at the House of Culture. To the great consternation of everyone preparing the festive evening, Ogurtsov says that the modern jazz band should be replaced by classical musicians performing music approved by the management, and instead of the carnival master of ceremonies, an official should speak and give an educational lecture. But the young people are plotting to keep Ogurtsov from spoiling the fun.

old New Year

"Old New Year" is a 1981 Soviet comedy film directed by Naum Ardashnikov and Oleg Efremov. After the successful premiere of the play of the same name by M. Roshchin at the Moscow Art Theater, it was filmed at Mosfilm with almost the same cast.

On the eve of the Old New Year, two families - representatives of the working class and the intelligentsia - are celebrating a housewarming and preparing for the Old New Year. The head of one of the families comes home, where everything is ready for the holiday, but he is in a bad mood. He is disappointed with his life and everything he has achieved. Prosperity and a comfortable apartment are not what he lived for before. His wife and family do not understand why his father suddenly decided to throw the TV, furniture and piano out of the apartment. His neighbor also does not find a common language with his family. He worked all his life to achieve well-being and prosperity, but suddenly it turns out that this means nothing to him. Then the heads of families leave the house and meet in the bathhouse, where they talk about how to live on.

Sorcerers

Another Soviet New Year comedy with musical elements. The main action of the film unfolds around a couple in love - Ivan and Alena. A whirlwind of events takes the viewer along with the main character to the Institute of Witchcraft, Magic and Witchcraft. Here Ivan's love and devotion should bewitch Alena, who was cast by an evil spell by the director of the Institute with the surname Sataneev. The Shamakhanskaya sorceress turns Alena from a kind and loving girl to her fiancé into an evil and heartless careerist. As a result, good will triumph over evil, and this film will plunge you into the real atmosphere of a New Year's fairy tale.

Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka

The film is set on the night before Christmas in the village of Dikanka. The devil sits perched on a snow-covered roof, looking up with a mixture of awe and pleasure, but his mood is spoiled when he spots the blacksmith Vakula. For the devil hates him even more than the local priest, because Vakula is a wonderful painter, and his masterpiece hangs in the village church about how the devil whips and scalds Saint Peter.

The young blacksmith Vakula is in love with the village beauty Oksana. Oksana is a capricious girl who declares that she will marry Vakula only if he brings her the shoes of Empress Catherine the Great. The devil promises to help the blacksmith get his shoes, but only on condition that he sells his soul.