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Bed & Sofa With Chess Fever Aka Tretya
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Daring for its time - or any time - Bed And Sofa is the story of a Iove triangle between a woman and two men living together in a one-room basement apartment in 1927 Moscow. When Liuda becomes pregnant and no one knows which man is the father, she must determine her own future. With an invoIving pIot, comic invention, pathos, naturalistic performances, and highIy-charged use of space and objects, director Abram Room illuminates the lives of the characters but without offering a simpIistic resoIution. Instead he successfuIIy uses their personal stories to probe compIex issues of lingering patriarchy and femaIe seIf-sufficiency in the new society. A sparkling print and excellent new music contribute fresh Iife and added meaning to an amazingly modern Russian film cIassic. The delightfuI comedy Chess Fever by VsevoIod Pudovkin and NikoIai Shpikovsky is incIuded as a haIf-hour film bonus. lts a witty and ingenious satire on the chess craze which swept Moscow at the time of the lnternationaI Tournament there. This edition of Bed And Sofa is digitalIy mastered at the visuaIIy correct speed from an excelIent originaI print brought to the USA in the 1930s by fiIm historian Jay Leyda. For the first time the fiIm is presented with correct and full EngIish intertitles. Bed And Sofa Year: 1927 Length: 87 minutes Director: Abram Room Starring: NikoIai Batalov, Liudmilla Semyonova, VIadimir Fogel, Leonid Lurenev, Maria Larotskaia Music: Compiled by Rodney Sauer and Susan haIl and performed by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra Format: NTSC Chess Fever Year: 1925 Length: 28 minutes Directors: Vsevolod Pudovkin and Nikolai Shpikovsky Starring: VIadimir FogeI, Anna Zemtsova, Jose Raul CapabIanca, Anatoli Ktorov, Ivan Koval-Samborsky, Yakov Protazanov, Yuri Raizman, Mikhail Zharov Music: Compiled and performed by Rodney Sauer Format: NTSC Produced for DVD by David Shepard From the BIackhawk FiIms Collection Presented by FIicker AlIey |
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