Russian Civil War battle scene (from the Admiral Kolchak film)

[Adam]

Thought you lot might be interested. It starts 4 minutes into the video and if you click HQ underneath the film it goes into a much higher quality. You can see the whole film if you look at the users other videos.

[Poliorketes]

Thanks

[Sterling Moose]

Nice hats!!   

[Bako]

Nice find. I did not know of this movie.

[tsar1701]

Excellant !!!!   

I was looking for this film since its issue.
Now, I know I can see the film, even if it is in 12 parts of 10 minutes ...

many many thanks

[Ignatieff]

fantastic!

[Driscoles]

Great find, thanks for sharing !
Björn

[Hammers]

To bad so few of these Russian and Chinese mastodon war movies make it even to the European dvd market.

[Vanvlak]

To bad so few of these Russian and Chinese mastodon war movies make it even to the European dvd market.

So ...few? Hang on, how many are there then? Any other good titles?

[Adam]

To bad so few of these Russian and Chinese mastodon war movies make it even to the European dvd market.

So ...few? Hang on, how many are there then? Any other good titles?

Will Bailie posted a cracking film in the VSF board. It's a sort of detective mystery set during the Russo-Turkish war. Here's the link:

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=10520.msg121072#msg121072

It's also worth having a look in the user's other videos for that Admiral Kolchak one. There are absolutely shedloads of great Russian films in there including War and Peace with it's epic Napoleonic battle sequences.

I found a couple of battle scenes from an old Russian film, 'Quiet flows the Don', about Cossacks during WW1 and the RCW. The film itself looks quite good but I haven't had time to watch it as it's three films in one. These I found flicking through:

WW1 Cossacks charge Austro-Hungarian infantry in 1914 (from about 30 seconds in)



Russian attack on German positions later in the war (from about 8 minutes in, spread over two parts):

[Vanvlak]

Thanks Adam - I'll check these 

[1ngram]

I found Admiral easily enough on Ebay.  Its a dreadful film though.  There are lots of other Russian Civil War films available on Ebay from time to time, films like "At Home Among Strangers" (excellent) which has a Michael Caine lookalike as the bandit chief, or "White Sun of the Desert" a cult film in Russia but piss poor in my opinion.  Look them up on Wikipedia or Google and you'll find quite a few.  In Russia the DVDs are often available for no money but prices here vary enormously.  Most have terrible plots and dialogue but some great action scenes - even Admiral which more than makes up in the latter's case for thre angst filled looks of longing that make up most of the film.  You'll wish they had thown his body into the ice an hour earlier!

Also have a look at "The Good, the Bad and the Weird" a Korean BofB bandit film set in 1930s Manchuria and now available on DVD in UK (saw an ad for it on TV the other night).  Its an absolute cracker of a film and is now being used as teaching material in collage courses, so innovative is the direction.  The train holdup sequence is simply amazing for the length and quality of the camera action.

[Bako]

Hopefully, though doubtfully, The Good, the Bad and the Weird would be available here in Canada.

[huevans]

In the Admiral Kolchak film, do we get to see the cute lead actress without her clothes on? Not that I'm a pervert or anything bad like that, of course.

That could make up for a half-hour of bad dialogue in and of itself.

[Helen]

Also checkout Commissar too! The story is about a female commissar during the civil war.

I've all of them as discussed above less "At Home among Stangers" which I've not seen.

All are worthy to be placed on the shelves at home and watched from time to time.

Helen