I wanna watch movies about the USSR, WW2, Cold War etc minus all the anti-communist bs Hollywood plasters their films with, any recommendations comrades? Maybe even some old Soviet productions?

  • Sinokai@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    Cliffwalkers from last year was rad. While non-fiction, its about soviet-trained Chinese spies that are sent to infiltrate the occupying Japanese invaders.

  • Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    Seventeen Moments of Spring. It’s a Soviet multi-series movie about a Soviet secret agent working undercover as a Gestapo officer. It’s a classic for a reason.

    In a similar vein - Variant Omega, also about intelligence officers.

    Avoid Russian movies made recently, i.e. the one about Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. It’s bourgeoisie revisionism galore.

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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        2 years ago

        Watch this. there should be english subs in the youtube. It’s based on the Seventeen Moments of Spring but much better, and genuninly one of the best spy series ever produced.

        Fun fact: it’s still very popular in Poland, but the last episode is censored out of the series because it shows Americans in unfavourable light.

        There also this one, worse but more based politically and more action oriented.

    • CHGordon@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      2 years ago

      I’ve been meaning to watch something about the Chinese civil war/Sino-japanese war, it’s something never really touched by western entertainment to my knowledge, thanks!

      • Eat_Yo_Vegetables69@lemmygrad.ml
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        2 years ago

        Ah The Eight Hundred and the Hundred Regiment Offensive might be a good one for the second Sino-Japanese war.

        Couldn’t find a direct link but The Crossing also spans WW2 to the civil war.

        I quite liked the TV series <亮剑> as it spans from the united front in WW2 to the civil war, unfortunately I couldn’t find any English subtitled links to share :(

        Somebody clipped and subtitled a battle scene from another TV series called <三八线>

        • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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          2 years ago

          Thank you so much for these recommendations. I have been working my way through The War of Loong / 龙之战, The Eight Hundred / 八佰, and Hundred Regiment Offensive / 百团大战.

          And I think this is a link for The Crossing / 太平轮: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGn_P2L5jOI

          I’ll watch The Crossing / 太平轮 over the next few days.

          I tried to learn Mandarin a few years ago but most of the movies / series I found were rubbish, which took the joy out of it. If only I knew about these sources back then! Now I can find some enjoyable movies in Chinese, I might try picking up the language again. Thanks again.

          EDIT: The most complex sentence I was able to make (and it may not make sense) was 我是慢慢的学生的中文。