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KOMMUNALKA

By Françoise HUGUIER

Documentary - Completed 2008

- Year of production
- 2008
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Françoise HUGUIER
- ISAN
- 0000-0002-1727-0000-Y-0000-0000-9
- EIDR
- 10.5240/4B7F-4F4F-AA0D-9876-A325-L
- Producer(s)
- Serge LALOU
- Synopsis
- “Komunalka” 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.