Vladimir Fogel

A gently satirical comedy about everyday life in a communal tenement in 1920s Moscow, made by the great comic director Boris Barnet.

Abram Room’s masterpiece is a realistic, humorous evocation of everyday life in 1920s Moscow and a frank, unsentimental exploration of relationships between men and women.

Soviet pioneer Lev Kuleshov’s entertaining comedy is part action movie, part western, part detective film, part light-hearted political satire and part pioneering cinematic manifesto.