The key facts

  • The quiz consists of eight questions with four answer options, one point for each correct answer
  • The piece is part of Life.ru's series of quizzes on Soviet cinema, including guessing films from apartments and from heroes in masks

Soviet films by background details

The outlet Life.ru has published a new entertainment quiz, dedicated to Soviet cinema. The authors invite readers to guess eight Soviet films not from famous scenes or lines, but from small details in the background: restaurant signs, entrance plaques, and posters that usually go unnoticed by viewers. In the compilers' view, such details can tell you as much about a film as a familiar line of dialogue.

Format and related materials

Each question works like this: the reader reads the inscription and chooses one of four options, with one point awarded for each correct answer. At the end, the outlet invites readers to share their result in the comments and take several more quizzes from the same series: recall what comes next in eight scenes from Soviet cinema, identify Russian regions by their outlines and distinguish the peoples of Russia by details of traditional costume.

A series of quizzes on Soviet cinema

The signs quiz is not Life.ru's first piece on the topic: in its recommendations block, the outlet links to a quiz on guessing Soviet films from apartments, where the passing threshold is stated as 6 out of 8, as well as to a quiz on six Soviet films by heroes in masks. In addition, the collection includes a quiz on the meaning of eight obsolete words from Russian short stories and a quiz on recognizing Russian regions by their outlines with a threshold of 5 out of 10. These materials are purely entertainment and are not connected with events in Uzbekistan.

Quiz: Guess 8 Soviet films from apartments! Shame on you if you don't score at least 6/8!