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Wednesday, Mar 7, 2018
3:10 PM (170 mins)
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SUBJECTS
Bed and Sofa
(Tretya meshchanskaya)
(Lyubov vtroyom), (Three Sharing), (Triangle Love), (In the Cellars of Moscow), (Third Meshchanskaya Street)
Digital Restoration
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Lecture
Anne Nesbet is an associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures and film and media at UC Berkeley.
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On Piano
Nikolai Batalov, Ludmila Semyonova, Vladimir Fogel,
One of the most delightful and outrageous early Soviet films, Bed and Sofa offers a surprisingly frank look at shifting values in a society still very much in transition. When Volodya moves to Moscow to look for work, he’s unable to find housing. So, he moves in with his old army buddy Kolya and Kolya’s wife Lyuda. But while Kolya is away on business, a romance emerges between Lyuda and Volodya. Remarkably daring, Bed and Sofa is beautifully realized, with wonderful performances by its ménage-à-trois that draw you into the complexity of the emotional situation.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Abram Room
- Viktor Shklovsky
Cinematographer
- Grigori Giber
Language
- Silent
- English intertitles
Print Info
- B&W
- DCP
- Silent
- 74 mins
Source
- MK2 and Lobster Films
CINEFILES
CineFiles is an online database of BAMPFA's extensive collection of documentation covering world cinema, past and present.
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Bed and sofa (program note), Pacific Film Archive Calendar, Yvette Bíró, 1994
Bed and sofa (program note), Pacific Film Archive, 1994
Psychological realism in early Soviet cinema: Bed and sofa (program note), Pacific Film Archive Calendar, Yvette Bíró, 1992
Bed and sofa (program note), Pacific Film Archive Calendar, Yvette Bíró, 1983
Soviet silent cinema : part 2 : 1926-1927 (program note), The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sonia Volochova, 1975
The perils of overcrowding (review), Village Voice, Molly Haskell, 1972
Tretja meschtschanskaja (program note), Internationales Forum des Jungen Films, Jay Leyda, 1972
Abram Room : Bed and sofa (program note), 1900
Bed and sofa (distributor materials), Audio Brandon Films, Yvette Bíró
Notes on program 149 : Bed and sofa (program note), Film Circle
Displaying 10 of 18 publicly available documents.