Mosfilm presented the final list of films for the school

Director General of Mosfilm, director and producer Karen Shakhnazarov, in an exclusive interview with Izvestia, said that three weeks ago he sent the Ministry of Education a list of more than 100 films recommended for study in schools. The list was compiled as part of the President's instructions, which were to be completed by August 30. Sergey Kravtsov, the Minister of Education, and Karen Shakhnazarov were responsible for creating the list.

"We offered films made before 1991. Why? Because time must pass. There have certainly been decent paintings since '91, but still, in our opinion, it's too early to include them in the school list. Moreover, truly Russian cinema began, in fact, after the noughties. Another reason is copyright, which is often confused after 1991, and the rights to Soviet paintings are often easier. That's why we hired 50 major directors who are beyond any doubt. And they took two paintings from almost everyone. It turned out to be a little more than 100 films," Karen Shakhnazarov told Izvestia.

Shakhnazarov provided Izvestia with a list of Karen's films. Here is the full list of films that are listed there.:

"Aybolit-66", "Scarecrow", "the Elusive Avengers", "the Two captains"", "'t have a headache from woodpecker", "wild dog Dingo", "Old, old story", "Scarlet sails", "Ruslan and Ludmila", "Jolly fellows", "Spring", "Chapaev", "White sun of the desert", "the captivating Star of happiness", "midshipmen, forward!", "The Caucasian captive, or Shurik's New adventures", "Ivan Vasilyevich changes occupation", "Viy", "Two soldiers," "Vertical," "the meeting Place cannot be changed", "I step through Moscow", "Mimino", "heavenly slug", "Girls", "Altitude", "Twenty-six days in the life of Dostoevsky", "hussar ballad", "Beware of the car", "We are from jazz", "Courier", "I love You", "Go to fight some "old", "Torpedo", "Man from Boulevard des Capucines", "two comrades were Serving", "Ordinary miracle", "at home among strangers, a stranger among his own", "unfinished piece for mechanical piano", "Run", "sword and Shield", "Peter", "Alexander Nevsky" and "Ivan the terrible", "the cranes are Flying", "the Red tent", "Pokrovskie Vorota", "Officers", "Hot snow", "Crew", "Shine, Shine, my star", "the Forty-first", "the Ballad about a soldier", "the Destiny of man", "They fought for the Motherland", "In war as in war", "Kuban Cossacks", "the Brothers Karamazov", "the wounded", "Live till Monday", "the dawns here are quiet", "Moscow does not believe in tears", "Love and pigeons", "Ivanovo detstvo", "Solaris", "the noble nest", "Uncle Vanya", "Check on the roads", "Twenty days without war", "the lady with the dog", "Home", "In hell no", "Release", "hamlet", "King Lear", "the Dead season", "Crime and punishment", "once again about love", "the Chair," "Optimistic tragedy," "My sweet and tender beast," "Time, forward!", "The Kreutzer Sonata," "Nine days of one year", "Ordinary fascism" (the only documentary on the list), "Welcome, or no trespassing," "Come and see", "heart of a Dog", "Belorussian station", "Spring on Zarechnaya street", "July rain", "the Living and the dead", "the Climb", "the Quiet don", "Pechki-Lavochki", "Kalina Krasnaya", "mirror for a hero", "Plumbum, or Dangerous game", "the Cold summer of the fifty-third...", "Seventeen moments of spring".

"Please note that the demonstration of films should be a separate subject of the compulsory school curriculum. These are not optional or additional classes, not illustrative material for other subjects, for example, history or literature, this is an independent subject "History of Russian cinema", which involves collective viewing and discussion of film productions. That is why many worthy adaptations of classical literature, as well as TV series, are deliberately not included in the list of films," the explanatory note to the document says (available to Izvestia).

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