"Psychological projection is the process of misinterpreting what is "inside" as coming from "outside". - - In its malignant forms, it is a defense mechanism in which the ego defends itself against disowned and highly negative parts of the self by denying their existence in themselves and attributing them to others, breeding misunderstanding and causing untold interpersonal damage."

Soviet Movies, left to right:

Guest from the Future (Гостья из Будущего), Per Aspera ad Astra (Сквозь Тернии к Звездам)

Moscow-Cassiopeia (Москва-Кассиопея), Guest From the Future (again)

Kin-Dza-Dza (Кин-дза-дза), The Witches Cave (Подземелье Ведьм)

Moscow-Cassiopeia (again), This Merry Planet (Эта весёлая планета)

I don't know this one, She Fell from clouds (Spadla z oblakov)

  • Tervell [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Not really schlocky, but they did have some big budget stuff:

    • Liberation is a series of WW2 films with some pretty big battles and lots of actual tanks. They start with Kursk, and then cover Bagration and eventually the battle of Berlin. Apparently they wanted to film the Kursk one on the actual battlefield, but gave up because of all the unexploded ordnance that was still lying around.
    • Waterloo and War and Peace by Bondarchuk both had an entire division's worth of actual Soviet soldiers as extras in order to reenact the battles, so you get shots like this and this

    And there's probably some others, these are just the ones I know of.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
      ·
      3 years ago

      That they never produced a blockbuster version of Master and Margaritta is the greatest indictment of the Soviet system imaginable.