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Poll: Movies Based On Classic Russian Literature
What is your favorite movie based on classic Russian literature? Many Russian writers have written great literature that has been turned into movies around the world. Which one is your favorite?
If you have any to suggest, come to this page and ask Snegurochka (the snow maiden) and Grandfather Frost (both are the Russian version of Santa Claus) to include them here.
https://www.thoughtco.com/best-works-russian-literature-4158120
Make Your Choice
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Snegurochka (1969)
This is based on a play of a Russian Christmas fairy tale was by Aleksandr Ostrovskiy -
War and Peace (1965)
Count Leo Tolstoy -
Ikiru (1952)
Count Leo Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” -
Prostaya smert (1985)
Count Leo Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” -
Anna Karenina (2012)
Count Leo Tolstoy -
Stalker (1979)
“Roadside Picnic” by Arkadiy Strugatskiy -
The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
The Brothers Karamazov (1969)
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Crime and Punishment (1935)
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Crime and Punishment (1970)
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
The stories this was based on was written in Yiddish. Author: Sholom Aleichem -
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Boris Pasternak -
Living (2022)
Count Leo Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” -
Lolita (1962)
Vladimir Nabokov -
The Humpbacked Horse (1975)
Pyotr Ershov - I came across this one while looking up the Russian fairy tale of The Firebird. I had learned about the fairytale from the very old computer game “The Last Express” where The Firebird Poem and legend and a jeweled mechanical model based on it plays a very large part in the game. -
Fantasia 2000 (1999)
While Disney used Igor Stravinsky’s suite to tell a circle of life story of life, death, and rebirth, the story to the ballet to which this goes is like this - The Firebird, which is a magical half woman / half bird creature, is “captured by Prince Ivan, but when he sets her free she gives him a magic feather, which he uses to defeat the spell of Kaschei the Immortal, who had captured thirteen princesses. Prince Ivan then marries the most beautiful of them.” - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebird_(Slavic_folklore) I just didn’t feel the list would be complete without somehow adding the real tale of the Russian folk tail. -
Black Sabbath (1963)
Two of these stories are based on Russian authors. One supposedly by Anton Chekhov though it is debated if he was the author. The other is Aleksei Tolstoy (billed as A. Tolstoy) who is not to be confused with Leo Tolstoy. -
Uncle Vanya (2020)
Anton Chekhov -
Winter Sleep (2014)
Anton Chekhov -
Summer Storm (1944)
Anton Chekhov (but look at who is playing in the cast! George Sanders) -
The Double (2013)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (Suggested by Pencho15) -
Onegin (1999)
Alexander Pushkin (Suggested by Pencho15) -
A Few Days from the Life of I.I. Oblomov (1980)
Ivan Goncharov (Suggested by Pencho15) -
Lady Macbeth (2016)
“Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk“ by Nikolai Leskov (Suddested by Pencho15) -
Saawariya (2007)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (Suggested by Pencho15) -
White Nights (1957)
“White Nights” by Fyodor Dostoevsky (suggested by Pencho15) -
Lover's Prayer (2001)
A combination of Ivan Turgenev’s “First Love”, and Anton Chekhov’s “The Peasant Woman” (Suggested by Pencho15) -
Peter and the Wolf (1946)
Sergei Prokofiev and uses his music. (Suggested by Mariojacobs)
