“Kommunalka” observes life in a communal flat in Saint Petersburg. This mode of life that is so closely linked to Russia’s Soviet past nonetheless remains a common phenomenon. Nowadays, some 90,000 flats are shared due to the ongoing economic crisis. This is more than just communal life – it is life at close quarters.
By focusing on the different inhabitants, the film takes a look at everyday life in this type of flat and at the particular human relationships that develop in such living conditions. A communal flat is a space people share only because they have no other choice. A place in which people generally know nothing about each other; a sealed-off space that serves as a backdrop against which the contradictions of the human condition and those within Russian culture and society in these times of great change are exposed and explode.
KOMMUNALKA
un film de Françoise Huguier - Société“Kommunalka” observes life in a communal flat in Saint Petersburg. This mode of life that is so closely linked to Russia’s Soviet past nonetheless remains a common phenomenon. Nowadays, some 90,000 flats are shared due to the ongoing economic crisis. This is more than just communal life – it is life at close quarters.
By focusing on the different inhabitants, the film takes a look at everyday life in this type of flat and at the particular human relationships that develop in such living conditions. A communal flat is a space people share only because they have no other choice. A place in which people generally know nothing about each other; a sealed-off space that serves as a backdrop against which the contradictions of the human condition and those within Russian culture and society in these times of great change are exposed and explode.
“Kommunalka” observes life in a communal flat in Saint Petersburg. This mode of life that is so closely linked to Russia’s Soviet past nonetheless remains a common phenomenon. Nowadays, some 90,000 flats are shared due to the ongoing economic crisis. This is more than just communal life – it is life at close quarters.
By focusing on the different inhabitants, the film takes a look at everyday life in this type of flat and at the particular human relationships that develop in such living conditions. A communal flat is a space people share only because they have no other choice. A place in which people generally know nothing about each other; a sealed-off space that serves as a backdrop against which the contradictions of the human condition and those within Russian culture and society in these times of great change are exposed and explode.
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Data sheet
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- http://www.editionsmontparnasse.fr/p1321/Kommunalka-DVD
- Directed by
- Françoise Huguier
- Year
- 2008
- Genre
- Société
- Editing
- Mathilde Muyard
- Author
- Françoise Huguier/Mano Siri
- Photography
- Katell Djian
- Sound
- André Rigaut
- Producer
- Les films d'Ici - Serge Lalou / Marie Guirauden
- Broadcaster
- The Documentary Channel / Ciné Cinéma
- Partners
- CNC / Archipel Productions
- Format
- HDCAM
- Length
- 97'
- ISAN
- 0000000217270000Y000000009
- International sales
- The Party Film Sales
- Video publisher
- Editions Montparnasse
- Non-commercial sales
- Les Films du Paradoxe
- Special mention
- Mention spéciale du Jury pour le montage au RIDM 2008
Prix du Jury Anna Politkovskaïa au Festival de Créteil - 2009 - Distributeur
- Les Films du Paradoxe
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