TOP 8 best films about the village

Urbanization increased both the mental and the quantitative gulf between the villagers and the urban. Modern youth is trying to leave the village. They consider life here unattractive and uncomfortable. The romantic halo of the village and the warmest feelings for the life of the village can awaken films.

"Wedding in the Robin", 1967

• Year: 1967
• Genre: Comedy, Musical, Military
• Country: USSR
• Cast: Vladimir Samoilov, Lyudmila Alfimova, Valentina Nikolaenko, Evgeny Lebedev, Zoya Fedorova, Helium Sysoev, Mikhail Pugovkin, Nikolai Slichenko, Andrey Abrikosov, Grigory Abrikosov

This musical comedy, showing the period of the Civil War, gave a lot of quotes, beloved and recognizable characters. This is an explosive mixture of funny characters and serious greetings "red". And perhaps this is a fairy tale about a beautiful girl who wants to marry for love, and not for ideology. The viewer does not think about it. He just enjoys watching a comedy about how the Red Guards save the village from the gang of Gritska, who also wants to marry a girl.

Love and Pigeons, 1984

• Year: 1984
• Genre: Comedy, Romance
• Country: USSR
• Cast: Alexander Mikhailov, Nina Doroshina, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Sergey Yursky, Natalya Tenyakova, Yanina Lisovskaya, Igor Lyakh, Lada Sizonenko, Vladimir Menshov, Konstantin Mikhailov

This is a spiritual story about Vasya and his wife Nadia Kuzyakina. For domestic viewers, the film "Love and Pigeons" is the most understandable and closest film.

Kuzyakins live in the Siberian village. They have three children. Nearby is a neighbor, a binge. Vasya works at logging and loves pigeons very much. Hope in the household does most of the work and grumbles at the birds raised by her husband.

After receiving an industrial injury, Vasya leaves for the sanatorium. Here, on the Black Sea coast, a man meets Raisa Zakharovna. Basil perceives her, intelligent and educated, as a deity. There is a resort romance, and the main character of the film, unable to cope with the onslaught of flaming feelings, leaves his pigeons and family.

The vivid characters of the villagers were written off from the scriptwriter's relatives - the villagers.

The Girls, 1961

• Year: 1961
• Genre: Comedy, Romance
• Country: USSR
• Cast: Nadezhda Rumyantseva, Nikolai Rybnikov, Lucien Ovchinnikova, Stanislav Khitrov, Inna Makarova, Svetlana Druzhinina, Nina Menshikova, Roman Filippov, Mikhail Pugovkin, Anatoly Adoskin

A graduate of the Tosya culinary school arrives by distribution in a remote village from sunny Simferopol. Local guys immediately reveal an interest in a naive and energetic girl. The first guy in the village also provides attention to the new girl. But then he receives a turn from the gate. Now it is a matter of principle and honor to conquer this impregnable Tosya. According to popular wisdom - do not swarm another hole. This is where the boyfriend gets into such a hole. Only in Soviet times could they make such truly good films.

“It was Penkov,” 1957

• Year: 1957
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Country: USSR
• Cast: Maya Menglet, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Svetlana Druzhinina, Vladimir Ratomsky, Valentina Telegin, Anatoly Kubatsky, Yuri Medvedev, Alexandra Kharitonova, Yuri Martynov, Elena Melnikova

Livestock specialist Tonya - an educated and active girl comes from the city to the collective farm. The girl has progressive looks. Matvey Morozov is the main bully, he is the first guy in the village. The girl was very interested in him, but only trouble - he is married, and his wife is the daughter of the collective farm chairman.

The girl Tosya is working with local residents. She tries to cultivate them. Moonshiner Alevtina does not like this.This quarrelsome old woman uses the discord between Matvey and his wife, whose name is Larisa, to harm the city upstart.

“Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka”, 1962

• Year: 1962
• Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Comedy
• Country: USSR
• Cast: Yuri Tavrov, Lyudmila Khityaeva, Georgy Millar, Alexander Khvylya, Sergey Martinson, Anatoly Kubatsky, Alexander Radunsky, Dmitry Kapka, Nikolay Yakovchenko, Lyudmila Myznikova

The old rural way of life is brightly shown by Russian fairy tales. Director Alexander Rowe, who has a special sense of national folklore, masterfully conveys this way in the film “Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka”. This film was staged based on Gogol’s work “The Night Before Christmas”. The traditions of local cuisine, the lifestyle of rural residents, their rites and festivities are shown in all its glory.

In one farm on the eve of the holy holiday, a demon beguiled all the inhabitants. But a blacksmith by the name of Vakula managed to maintain his love, get his bride to get cuttings and overcome evil spirits.

Viburnum red, 1974

• Year: 1974
• Genre: Dramas
• Country: USSR
• Cast: Vasily Shukshin, Lidia Fedoseeva-Shukshina, Ivan Ryzhov, Maria Skvortsova, Alexey Vanin, Maria Vinogradova, Afimya Bystrova, Lev Durov, Nikolai Grabbe, George Burkov

In the work of Vasily Shukshin, this film became the climax. He himself wrote the script, he himself starred in the lead role. In the Soviet film distribution, this film broke all records among non-comedic films.

Egor Prokudin - the main character of the film, served a term. He wants to start living anew and comes to the village. But can a former life let him go?

"White nights of the postman Alexei Tryapitsyn", 2014

• Year: 2014
• Genre: Dramas
• Country Russia
• Cast: Alexey Tryapitsyn, Irina Ermolova, Timur Bondarenko, Victor Kolobkov, Victor Berezin, Tatyana Silich, Irina Silich, Yuri Panfilov, Nikolai Kapustin, Sergey Yuryev

Through a trilogy, Andrei Konchalovsky depicted how he sees life in places remote from the center. The Russian outback can be shown depressingly. Konchalovsky during the filming of films many times resorted to the services of lay actors. They were local residents of those places where the filming took place. This film was no exception. Unprofessional actor starred in the lead role. The film is very reminiscent of shots of real life, where the actors are ordinary locals.

Events take place in the Arkhangelsk region. Local residents support communication with the outside world only through the telecast “Fashionable Sentence” and the postman. It seems that time in this place has stopped. But even the aforementioned program is comparable to science fiction, with a parallel world, a film about space.

Matchmakers, 2008

• Year: 2008
• Genre: Comedy
• Country Ukraine
• Cast: Lyudmila Artemyeva, Fedor Dobronravov, Tatyana Kravchenko, Anatoly Vasiliev, Inna Koroleva, Alexey Dmitriev, Stanislav Dyachenko, Denis Rodnyansky, Vladimir Turchinsky, Ulyana Ivaschenko

This is a very optimistic modern project. In just two films, the screening of the comedic “Matchmakers” began. A village theme is described very indirectly here. And through representatives of rural life - original heroes, it is revealed. The series takes the viewer to the village of Kuchugury.

Young parents are very busy. Their daughter is constantly divided between grandparents. But they are very different. The village grandfather and grandmother are loving, kind and simple people, and the city ones are intellectuals. Every day, the heroes of the film solve life problems, everyday conflicts that almost every viewer faces.

The best films about life in the village were made in an era when almost every inhabitant understood this topic and was close to it. Currently, filmmakers remotely imagine how and how the villagers live. They show their paintings either cheerfully and caricaturely, or sadly and hopelessly. But in any case, when watching such films, warm feelings awaken - one recalls childhood, the comfort of a grandmother’s house, Russian nature, which is comparable to the exotic of resort countries.