The House on Trubnaya

The House on Trubnaya
The House on Trubnaya
	Film poster
Directed by	Boris Barnet
Written by	Bella Zorich; Viktor Shklovsky; Anatoli Marienhof; Vadim Shershenevich; Nikolai Erdman
Starring	Vera Maretskaya; Vladimir Fogel
Cinematography	Yevgeni Alekseyev
Production; company	Mezhrabpom-Rus
Release date	1928;
Running time	84 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

The House on Trubnaya (Russian: Дом на Трубной, romanized: Dom na Trubnoy) is a 1928 comedy film directed by Boris Barnet and starring Vera Maretskaya.^[1]^[2]

Plot

The House on Trubnaya (1928)

The film is set in Moscow at the height of the 1921–28 New Economic Policy. The petty-bourgeois public carries out their philistine life full of bustle and gossip in the house on the Trubnaya Street. One of the tenants, Mr. Golikov (Vladimir Fogel), owner of a hairdressing salon, is looking for a housekeeper who is modest, hard-working and non-union. A country girl nicknamed Paranya, full name Praskovya Pitunova (Vera Maretskaya) seems like a suitable candidate to him. Soon the house on Trubnaya receives the shocking news that Praskovya Pitunova has been elected deputy of the Mossovet by the maids' Trade Union.

Cast

Vera Maretskaya as Parasha Pitunova - housemaid
Vladimir Fogel as Mr. Golikov - hairdresser
Yelena Tyapkina as Mrs. Golikova
Sergei Komarov as Lyadov
Anel Sudakevich as Marisha-maid
Ada Vojtsik as Fenya
Vladimir Batalov as Semyon Byvalov - chauffeur
Aleksandr Gromov as Uncle Fedya
Vladimir Uralsky (as V. Uralsky)

Production

The script "Parasha" written by Bella Zorich was at the Mezhrabpom-Rus studio for a long time without getting made into a film. The screenplay was written for Sergei Komarov, but after discussion it was decided that Boris Barnet will adapt the film. Zorich said that the story of the new Cinderella – Paranya Pitunova, was supposed to show how the Leninist slogan "Every cook must learn to govern the state" is interpreted in a distorted way by the philistine laymen. However Boris Barnet, when starting work on the film immediately commenced with modifying the script; the screenplay faced numerous rewrites by a multitude of authors including Viktor Shklovsky, Nikolai Erdman, Anatoli Marienhof, Vadim Shershenevich.^[3] The finished picture lost much of its satiric tone.^[4]^[5]

Reception

Russian Guild of Film Critics placed "The House on Trubnaya" in their list "100 best films of national cinema".^[6]^[7]

References

^ Christie, Ian; Taylor, Professor Richard (19 August 2005). Inside the Film Factory: New Approaches to Russian and Soviet Cinema. Routledge. ISBN 9781134944330.
^ Dave Kehr. "The Russians Are Coming". The New York Times.
^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 271.
^ "Дом на Трубной". VokrugTV.
^ "Дом на Трубной". Encyclopedia of Native Cinema.
^ Игорь ДЕВЯТОВ. "Мурманчанам покажут немое кино с живым музыкальным аккомпанементом". Komsomolskaya Pravda.
^ "100 лучших фильмов по версии гильдии кинокритиков России". KinoPoisk.

External links

The House on Trubnaya at IMDb

[ChristieTaylor2005-1] Christie, Ian; Taylor, Professor Richard (19 August 2005). Inside the Film Factory: New Approaches to Russian and Soviet Cinema. Routledge. ISBN 9781134944330.

[2] Dave Kehr. "The Russians Are Coming". The New York Times.

[leyda-3] Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 271.

[4] "Дом на Трубной". VokrugTV.

[5] "Дом на Трубной". Encyclopedia of Native Cinema.

[6] Игорь ДЕВЯТОВ. "Мурманчанам покажут немое кино с живым музыкальным аккомпанементом". Komsomolskaya Pravda.

[7] "100 лучших фильмов по версии гильдии кинокритиков России". KinoPoisk.

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