UID:
kobvindex_ZLB13779878
Format:
2 DVD-Video (ca. 87 Min. bei 19 Bildern/Sek./28 Min.) : s/w
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DD/Stereo (engl., russ.) ; NTSC
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1 Beil.
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1,33:1 aspect ratio
Edition:
digitally mastered
Content:
Daring for its time (or any time), Bed and Sofa is the story of a love triangle between a woman and two men living together in a one-room basement apartment in 1927 Moscow. When Liuda becomes pregnant and no one knows which husband is the father, she must determine her own future. 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. As a bonus, this DVD also includes Chess Fever, a witty and ingenious satire on the chess craze which swept Moscow at the time of the International Tournament there. (Covertext)
Content:
Extras:Disc 1: Audio Commentary by Julian Graffy, Professor of Russian Literature and Cinema at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London (author of Bed and Sofa: The Film Companion (I. B. Taurus Publishers, 2001) which illuminates this film in the context of Russian cinema and of the Soviet culture, preoccupations and politics of the time. Chess Fever is presented with full English titles and also on the alternate video angle with original Russian titles, with new music by Rodney Sauer.
Note:
Ländercode: 0
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Orig.: Sowjetunion, 1927
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Disc 1: Englische Version mit engl. Zwischentiteln. Disc 2: Russische Version mit russ. Zwischentiteln und engl. Untertiteln.
Language:
Russian
Keywords:
Tretya Menshchanskajy
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Stummfilm
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Kommentar
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DVD-Video
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Kommentar
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DVD-Video
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Kommentar
Author information:
Šklovskij, Viktor Borisovič
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