Silent Film: Bed and Sofa [Tretya Meshchanskaya]

Directed by Abram Room
(Soviet Union, 1927, 95 minutes, b/w, silent with musical soundtrack)
Starring Nikolai Batalov, Lyudmila Semyonova
Against the wishes of his wife, a Moscow construction worker invites an army buddy to move into their
cramped basement apartment, creating a new and dysfunctional family ménage. A remarkable satire,
the film explores the upheaval of social and sexual norms during the early days of Soviet Communism.