The House At Trubnaya Square

Recognised widely as a masterpiece of Soviet silent cinema, The House at Trubnaya Square is a delightful comedy of manners satirising contemporary life in Moscow during a time of ever-shifting, often contradictory, policies.

It stars Vera Maretskaya, a five time winner of the Stalin Prize for acting, as a young girl seeking her uncle in the big city and finding herself in a highly eccentric household.

The film is notable not only for its attention to comic timing and clever use of editing, but also for involving five scriptwriters, all of them literary or political notables.

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