Award-Winning Russian-Language Films
105 films in Russian were recognised at the Oscars, the Golden Globes, Cannes or the Berlinale. The language is each film's original spoken language.
The most awarded is How I Ended This Summer (2010), with 3 wins, followed by The Italian (3) and Leviathan (2). Among the 100 shown here, 6 won at least one Oscar, 2 won a Golden Globe, 42 won a prize at Cannes and 26 won a prize at the Berlinale. They were released between 1941 and 2025.
Here are the 100 with the most wins. See all languages.
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How I Ended This Summer
2010 · 2h 4m
Drama · Thriller

The Italian
2005 · 1h 30m
Drama

Leviathan
2014 · 2h 21m
Drama · Crime

War and Peace
1968 · 7h 2m
History · Drama · War · Romance

Bolero
1993 · 6m

Burnt by the Sun
1994 · 2h 15m
Drama

Chronicle of Flaming Years
1961 · 1h 31m
War · Drama

Goodbye Golovin
2020 · 14m
Drama

Pharaoh
1999 · 10m
Comedy

Ballad of a Soldier
1959 · 1h 29m
Drama · Romance · War

Dark Eyes
1987 · 2h 1m
Comedy · Drama · Romance

Loveless
2017 · 2h 2m
Drama

Taxi Blues
1990 · 1h 50m
Drama · Comedy

Ayka
2018 · 1h 40m
Drama

Beanpole
2019 · 2h 14m
Drama · War

Calendar (Kalendar)
2018 · 29m
Drama

Elena
2011 · 1h 50m
Drama · Thriller

Gagarin
1994 · 3m
Comedy

Moloch
1999 · 1h 48m
Drama · History

Mussorgsky
1950 · 2h
History · Drama

Othello
1955 · 1h 47m
Drama

Out of the Window Through the Wall
2024 · 22m
Drama

Petrov's Flu
2021 · 2h 25m
Drama · Sci-Fi · Comedy

Portrait
2001 · 28m

Romeo and Juliet
1955 · 1h 32m
Romance · Music · Drama

Solaris
1972 · 2h 47m
Drama · Sci-Fi · Mystery

The Banishment
2007 · 2h 38m
Drama

The Cow
1989 · 10m
Drama

The Golden Antelope
1955 · 31m
Family · Adventure · Fantasy

The Road To
2012 · 35m
Drama

The Two of Us
2005 · 30m
Drama

War-Time Romance
1983 · 1h 32m
Drama · Romance

Winter in March
2025 · 16m
Animation

A Big Family
1954 · 1h 40m
Drama

A Play for a Passenger
1995 · 1h 43m
Drama

An Independent Life
1992 · 1h 37m
Drama

An Optimistic Tragedy
1963 · 2h 1m
War · Drama · History

Andrei Rublev
1966 · 3h 3m
Drama · History
B Teme
2008 · 14m

DAU. Natasha
2020 · 2h 18m
Drama

Dersu Uzala
1975 · 2h 21m
Adventure · Drama

Dovlatov
2018 · 2h 6m
Drama

Everybody Dies But Me
2008 · 1h 20m
Drama

Freeze, Die, Come to Life
1990 · 1h 45m
Drama

Heroes of Shipka
1955 · 2h 3m
War · Drama · History

Infinity
1991 · 3h 40m
Drama

Killer
1998 · 1h 20m
Drama · Crime

Lady with the Dog
1960 · 1h 23m
Romance · Drama

Lenin in Poland
1966 · 1h 33m
Drama

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
1980 · 2h 22m
Drama · Comedy · Romance

Moscow Strikes Back
1942 · 55m
War

Mother
1990 · 3h 20m
Drama · History

My Own Personal Moose
2014 · 17m

One Hundred Days After Childhood
1975 · 1h 34m
Romance · Drama

Satan
1990 · 1h 48m
Thriller · Drama

Siberiade
1979 · 4h 35m
War · Drama · History

The Ascent
1977 · 1h 50m
Drama · War

The Asthenic Syndrome
1989 · 2h 33m
Drama

The Commissar
1988 · 1h 50m
Drama · War

The Cranes Are Flying
1957 · 1h 37m
Drama · Romance · War

The Descendant of the Snow Leopard
1984 · 2h 14m
History · Drama · Romance · War

The Forty-First
1956 · 1h 28m
Drama · Romance · War

The Great Warrior Skanderbeg
1953 · 2h 3m
Action · History · Drama

The Guard
1990 · 1h 36m
Drama

The Old Man and the Sea
1999 · 21m
Adventure · Drama

The Servant
1988 · 2h 21m
Drama

The Theme
1986 · 1h 38m
Drama

The Wedding
2000 · 1h 54m
Comedy · Drama

The Year of the Dog
1994 · 2h 13m
Drama

There Was an Old Couple
1965 · 1h 43m
Drama

Trap
2022 · 20m
Drama

Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky
1980 · 1h 27m
Romance · History

Under Electric Clouds
2015 · 2h 17m
Drama · Sci-Fi

Tchaikovsky
1970 · 2h 37m
Drama · Music · History

Close to Eden
1991 · 1h 59m
Drama

Prisoner of the Mountains
1996 · 1h 39m
Drama · War

The Thief
1997 · 1h 36m
Drama · Crime

12
2007 · 2h 39m
Crime · Drama · Mystery

BoxBallet
2020 · 15m
Romance

Chelovek No. 217
1946 · 1h 31m
Drama

Glinka
1946 · 1h 56m
Music · History

Hamlet
1964 · 2h 20m
Drama

Hello, Moscow!
1946 · 1h 26m
Music · History

Kamennyj cvetok
1946 · 1h 18m
Fantasy · Family · Romance

Khovanshchina
1959 · 2h 53m
La cité des abeilles
1946 · 0m

Lavatory Lovestory
2006 · 10m
Romance · Comedy

Life at the Zoo
1946 · 20m

Lost in Siberia
1991 · 1h 43m
Drama · Romance

Mermaid
1997 · 10m
Fantasy · Romance

Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
2007 · 2h 5m
History · War · Action

My Love
2006 · 26m
Drama · Romance

Nomad: The Warrior
2006 · 1h 52m
Action · History · War

Private Life
1982 · 1h 42m
Drama

Recollections of Pavlovsk
1984 · 29m

Russian Soil
1941 · 20m

The Brothers Karamazov
1969 · 3h 38m
Drama

The Dawns Here Are Quiet
1972 · 3h 8m
Drama · History · War

The Edge
2010 · 1h 55m
Drama

The Red Tent (Red Tent, The)
1969 · 2h 38m
Adventure · Drama · History