

The House I Live In
DirectorsLev Kulidzhanov, Yakov Segel
“The camera captures a sensitivity seldom seen in this stirring drama from Soviet Russia”
1935. Two families — Davydov's with three children and the newlyweds Lida and Dmitri Kashirin's — enter the new house on the outskirts of Moscow into a common communal apartment. The children grow up, and they and the adults around them are looking for their place in life, looking for answers to the questions of who to be and what to be, quarreling, making peace, building relationships, destroying them. Six years later, the peaceful lives of characters, with their joys and misfortunes, quarrels and reconciliations, and complex personal relationships, are blown up by a war that connects everyone at once, forcing them to see the meaning of their days, their attitudes to each other and their life values in a different way. For some of them, war is a fatal trait.
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Cast

Valentina Telegina
Klavdiya Davydova

Nikolai Yelizarov
Pavel Davydov

Vladimir Zemlyanikin
Seryozha Davydov
Yuri Myasnikov
Seryozha Davydov in childhood

Yevgeny Matveyev
Konstantin Davydov

Rimma Shorokhova
Katya Davydova

Pavel Shalnov
Nikolai

Mikhail Ulyanov
Dmitri Kashirin

Ninel Myshkova
Lida
Klavdiya Yelanskaya
Actress

Zhanna Bolotova
Galya Volynskaya
Zoya Danilina
Galya Volynskaya in childhood
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