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Bed and Sofa

Live Piano Accompaniment Composed and Performed by Yakov Gubanov
Screening on Film
Directed by Abram Room.
With Ludmila Semenova, Nikolai Batalov, Vladimir Fogel.
USSR, 1926, 35mm, black & white, silent, 71 min.
Russian intertitles with English subtitles.

A young married couple, a Moscow housing shortage. The married guy takes in his friend, who promptly sleeps with the wife. The wounded married guy moves out. The woman finds herself pregnant, and neither possible father wants her to have an abortion. What will she decide? There are no tractors here, no Revolution, only a pleasing pre-feminist spirit.

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