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[igornavitja.livejournal.com]

Can anyone tell me where I can buy some russian movies with english subtitles? I am currently learning russian and I think it would help me. I speak fluently polish so that also helps. I just can't seem to find any movies anywhere? Series or children's stuff can also do...

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[rwarner.livejournal.com]

Not knowing your taste in movies, I'm not sure how you will enjoy this suggestion, but the DVD that I purchased the other day of the recent Russian movie Night Watch claims to be dubbed in English on one side and in the original Russian with English subtitles on the other side. I got mine in Target, but it was a pretty popular movie so you should be able to find it most anywhere.

On the same subject, the sequel to that movie is being released in the US on June 1, it's called Day Watch. I'm not sure if it's dubbed or subtitled, but the first one was subtitled when I saw it in the theater last year so I'd think this one will be too.

[sherlock2040.livejournal.com]

'Day Watch' was filmed in English I think. Not actually watched that one yet, but I loved 'Night Watch'.

[phineus892.livejournal.com]

No, Day Watch was filmed in Russian...but I don't know whether it will have subs or dubs. It's the third part of the trilogy that's being filmed in English, unfortunately.

[sherlock2040.livejournal.com]

aah, my mistake sorry :)

[upthera44.livejournal.com]

Night Watch and Day Watch are both fun to watch. I think the Russian language in them is a bit difficult for someone learning Russian though. Phrases here and there are understandable of course, but much of it seems to be slang, spoken with rapid and muffled language. Definitely cool movies though.

[my-valentine.livejournal.com]

netflix has a huge selection of russian movies

[malim-praedari.livejournal.com]

You are in Denmark, I presume. Then the internet is your best friend. Ozon.ru used to deliver outside of Russia (e.g., the US) but they stopped about a year ago. Not sure if they deliver to Europe. Bolero.ru, however, didn't have any delivery restrictions the last time I checked. Under product descriptions they will indicate whether a DVD has English subtitles. The drawback is that you need to be able to navigate an interface in Russian for both Ozon and Bolero.

AllDVD.ca was a great resource geared specifically towards foreigners, but they have recently shut down their site for "a new phase in our businesss initiatives". Not sure if they'll re-open again, but it's worth checking every once in a while.

[smartkitty-86.livejournal.com]

Ozon.ru used to deliver outside of Russia (e.g., the US) but they stopped about a year ago.
that might explain why my order from a while back has yet to arrive. :|

[malim-praedari.livejournal.com]

It sometimes takes them two months to fill an order. I've never had them lose anything, though (not that it's impossible).

[malim-praedari.livejournal.com]

Er, to clarify: they will still deliver printed matter, but no CDs and no DVDs, according to their latest policy.

[nietzsche-baby.livejournal.com]

my boyfriend bit-torrented 'Titus' (film of the shakespeare play titus andronicus, with anthony hopkins in) in russian a few weeks back! May be worth a look- it's a good film, though a bit scary in places...:)

[tricours.livejournal.com]

Hm, was it dubbed in Russian only? Or were there subtitles as well?

[guzelle.livejournal.com]

Ebay might help. I've found a very polular Russian movie The Irony of Fate or Enjoy your bath

http://cgi.ebay.com/THE-IRONY-OF-FATE-ENJOY-YOUR-BATH-RUSSIAN-2-DVDs-SET_W0QQitemZ190114446099QQihZ009QQcategoryZ617QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

It has the English subtitles.

If you use "Russian DVD" as a search phrase you might find more of Russian movies.

[avoider.livejournal.com]

I know for sure that The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson has english subtitles

[sherlock2040.livejournal.com]

This is a Finnish online shop that is everything about Russia (as the blurb says). I've only bought the Sherlock Holmes series from there and that had English subtitles.

http://www.ruslania.com/

(incidentally I was going to ask the same question so I'm now off to read the comments :D)

[upthera44.livejournal.com]

I recommend "The Irony of Fate" and "Everything is Illuminated"-- both good movies with relatively clear and understandable Russian.

[krepsen.livejournal.com]

what is "The Irony of Fate" called in russian?

[irkin.livejournal.com]

Ирония судьбы или С легким паром!

[upthera44.livejournal.com]

Sorry I left off the second half of the title-- "The Irony of Fate... Or Enjoy Your Bath" (или С легким паром). When I mention the full title of this movie people look at me like I'm crazy... I don't quite know why it was named in this unusual way, but I like it.

[irkin.livejournal.com]

"С лёгким паром" (literally smth about "happy light steam") is what we say to someone who comes out of bath or shower. But the expression comes from bath-house (баня) where you take a steam bath. So the film is called this way because of the bath-house - the place where all the plot begins :)

In Russian bath-house people hit each other with веник (http://www.kaminy.by/images/08-aksbani/veniki.jpg) (broom?). You can see that some moments of the film happen around веник of Zhenya :)

[spazzling21.livejournal.com]

I think a better translation for веник is 'branch' because I know what it is, but I don't know what the direct translation is.

[fizz-gig.livejournal.com]

one great movie is "The Peculiarities of the Russian Hunt" (1995) or in Russian "Osobennosti natsionalnoy okhoty" (sorry, don't have a Cyrillic keyboard). It's very funny.

IMDB listing: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114055/


One place you may want to try for subtitles is http://subscene.com/ though you'll need to know a bit about how to 'merge' them with your DVD movie, but there are instructions for how to do that on that site. If not, google is your friend :)

[upthera44.livejournal.com]

+1

[jorgen-w.livejournal.com]

I buy Russian DVD's from PeterShop, a Russian internetshop in Germany. They have loads of films. The site is in English, German and Russian.
http://www.petershop.com/en/catalogue/video/

There is also RussianDVD.com in the US:
http://www.russiandvd.com/store/

[pochitai.livejournal.com]

www.russiandvd.com
www.ruskniga.com
they might ship outside USA too - ask