Tret'ia meshchanskaia aka Liubov' vtroem . Bed and Sofa
Duration: 01:13:00 A married couple have a small apartment in Moscow. When an old friend of the husband's arrives in the city, he is unable to find lodgings. Kolia, the husband, invites his friend to move in with them. While Kolia is away on business, sensual Liuda and attractive Volodia fall i...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
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Sovkino
1926
Soviet Union |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:72985136-c56a-4e77-a051-fec99f18d308 |
| Summary: | Duration: 01:13:00
A married couple have a small apartment in Moscow. When an old friend of the husband's arrives in the city, he is unable to find lodgings. Kolia, the husband, invites his friend to move in with them. While Kolia is away on business, sensual Liuda and attractive Volodia fall in love and have an affair. After his initial outrage, the husband calms down. Kolia winds up on the sofa, and the three settle into a menage-a-trois until the wife finds herself pregnant. The two men are trying to decide what to do, but Liuda is strong enough to make her own decisions. Considered a landmark film because of humor, naturalism, and its sympathetic portrayal of the woman. The film is a very frank portrayal of sexual manners and of the pitiful living conditions in Moscow at the end of the NEP period. In 1929 "Bed and Sofa" was refused public exhibition in England, although it was shown privately to the Film Society in London April 7, 1929. Abram M. Room produced the first Soviet sound film in 1930 using newsreel footage by Esther Shub and Vertov. |
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| Published: | 1926 |