For much of the Soviet Union's history, with notable exceptions in the 1920s and the late 1980s, film content was heavily circumscribed and subject to censorship and bureaucratic state control.
U većem dijelu povijesti Sovjetskog Saveza, s iznimkama 1920-ih i kasnih 1980-ih, film je bio podvrgnut cenzuri i birokratskoj kontroli, a sadržaj vrlo ograničen.