| The House on Trubnaya | |
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| Directed by | Boris Barnet |
| Written by | Bella Zorich Viktor Shklovsky Anatoli Marienhof Vadim Shershenevich Nikolai Erdman |
| Starring | Vera Maretskaya Vladimir Fogel |
| Cinematography | Yevgeni Alekseyev |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
The House on Trubnaya (Russian:Дом на Трубной,romanized: Dom na Trubnoy) is a 1928comedy film directed byBoris Barnet and starringVera Maretskaya.[1][2]
The film is set inMoscow at the height of the 1921–28New Economic Policy. The petty-bourgeois public carries out their philistine life full of bustle and gossip in the house on the Trubnaya Street. One of the tenants, Mr. Golikov (Vladimir Fogel), owner of a hairdressing salon, is looking for a housekeeper who is modest, hard-working and non-union. A country girl nicknamed Paranya, full name Praskovya Pitunova (Vera Maretskaya) seems like a suitable candidate to him. Soon the house on Trubnaya receives the shocking news that Praskovya Pitunova has been elected deputy of theMossovet by the maids' Trade Union.
The script, then entitled "Parasha" and written by Bella Zorich, circulated at the Mezhrabpom-Rus studio for a long time without getting made into a film. The screenplay was written for Sergei Komarov, but after discussion it was decided that Boris Barnet would adapt the film. Zorich said that the story of the newCinderella – Paranya Pitunova – was supposed to show how the Leninist slogan "Every cook must learn to govern the state" was interpreted in a distorted way by the philistine laymen. However Boris Barnet, when starting work on the film immediately commenced with modifying the script; the screenplay faced numerous rewrites by a multitude of authors including Viktor Shklovsky, Nikolai Erdman, Anatoli Marienhof and Vadim Shershenevich.[3] The finished picture lost much of its satiric tone.[4][5]
TheRussian Guild of Film Critics placedThe House on Trubnaya in their list "The 100 best films of national cinema".[6][7]