Cohabilitation (1918)

Original title

Уплотнение

Directed by

Alexander Panteleyev

Genre

silent film

Country

Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic

Runtime

57 min

Rating

4.9 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1918 Russia, a film was made to promote the new Soviet policy of sharing housing. It shows people from different classes being forced to live together.

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What happens

Cohabitation (Russian: Уплотнение, romanized: Uplotneniye, literally "Compaction) is a 1918 agitprop silent full feature film directed by Anatoli Dolinov, Donat Pashkovsky and Aleksandr Panteleyev. It was produced by the Petrograd Cinema Committee and scripted by Anatoli Lunacharsky, People's Commissar of Education. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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