Tretya meshchanskaya (1927)
DVDRip | Language: English (intertitles) | Subtitles: Spanish (.srt)
XviD 512x384 (4:3) | 87 min | 19.0 fps | 121 kbps | 701 Mb
Genre: Mute / Drama | RS.com
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. With an involving plot, comic invention, pathos, naturalistic performances, and highly-charged use of space and objects, director Abram Room illuminates the lives of the characters but without offering a simplistic resolution. Instead he successfully uses their personal stories to probe complex issues of lingering patriarchy and female self-sufficiency in the new Society.
IMDB
DVDRip | Language: English (intertitles) | Subtitles: Spanish (.srt)
XviD 512x384 (4:3) | 87 min | 19.0 fps | 121 kbps | 701 Mb
Genre: Mute / Drama | RS.com
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. With an involving plot, comic invention, pathos, naturalistic performances, and highly-charged use of space and objects, director Abram Room illuminates the lives of the characters but without offering a simplistic resolution. Instead he successfully uses their personal stories to probe complex issues of lingering patriarchy and female self-sufficiency in the new Society.
IMDB
Una joven pareja vive en un pequeño departamento de Moscú. Cuando un amigo del esposo que ha llegado para trabajar en la ciudad no consigue alojamiento, Kolia, el esposo, lo invita a parar en su casa: puede dormir en el sofá.
Tras un comienzo de comedia amable, con tintes naturalistas y tramos cuasi-documentales dignos de El hombre de la cámara, el film se vuelve claustrofóbico a medida que asoman trazos sombríos. Obra cumbre del cineasta soviético Abram Room (1894-1976). Libro y guión del conocido crítico y teórico literario Viktor Shklovsky.
Jay Leyda calls Bed And Sofa a "coming to Moscow" film: one of many modernist social dramas in early Soviet cinema. Like its fellows, the movie can be read as a specific critique of the way ingrained prejudices threaten the enlightened communist state, or as a generalized comment on how the new social order has sent everyone scrambling.
For those who couldn't care less about 80-year-old cinematic op-ed pieces, Bed And Sofa offers the common treats of the Russian silents, particularly the inventively expressionist montage linking naturalistic scenes of people building, cleaning, or playing with their cats. The competition between early Soviet filmmakers and their ideological commitments spawned a string of movies focused on people, but dripping with style. Room merges the two modes in Bed And Sofa, returning repeatedly to half-admiring, half-critical, always beautifully composed shots of citizens at work and machines grinding away.