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The House on Trubnaya

192884 minSoviet Union
Comedy

Synopsis

A young woman from the countryside arrives in Moscow and finds domestic work in a crowded apartment building. Her employer expects an obedient servant with no connection to a trade union. When the residents believe she has gained political influence through the domestic workers' organization, their treatment of her changes with remarkable speed.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian.
This copy runs
62:23
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Межрабпом-Русь · Public domain

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Cast

DirectorsBoris Barnet

Historical context

Barnet's comedy places the inequalities of domestic service inside the everyday life of Moscow during the New Economic Policy. The apartment building becomes a small social world where political language and private self-interest repeatedly collide.

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