Uplotneniye
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About Uplotneniye
A locksmith and his daughter are moved into a professor's apartment under the compaction rules, workers begin to visit, and the professor starts lecturing at their club. His younger son falls in love with the locksmith's daughter and they decide to marry. The elder son, a yunker, hates the new tenants and is arrested. Anatoli Lunacharsky wrote the agitprop feature and appears in it.
Cast & crew
More about Uplotneniye
Wikipedia credits directors Anatoli Dolinov, Donat Pashkovsky, and Aleksandr Panteleyev, while Wikidata lists only Panteleyev and names Lenfilm. The article names the Petrograd Cinema Committee as the producer. Wikidata lists 57 minutes and the year 1918.
Themes
Background
Compaction was the policy of moving working families into larger private flats. The film argues that policy from inside one apartment.
Notes
- Ivan Lersky plays locksmith Pulnikov and Dmitry Leshchenko plays Professor Khrustin.
- Lunacharsky, then People's Commissar of Education, has a cameo.
- The English title is Cohabitation, and the Russian title means compaction.
- No Commons file is in the catalog.
Scenes
- The professor, after the workers fill his flat, agrees to lecture at their club.
- The elder son is arrested.