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Two People in a New House

1979 · 81 min

A quiet, earnest portrait of a marriage under strain, where everyday pressures and mismatched expectations slowly erode intimacy, asking for patient attention.

Directed by
Tofik Shakhverdiyev
Genres
Drama
Starring
Mariya Solomina, Aleksandr Abdulov, Kira Romanova
Overview
Sergey, a radio factory worker, a part-time student, and Nelya, an Intourist guide, got married relatively recently, but are already experiencing a serious family crisis. The first difficulties of life threaten to destroy their marriage. Young spouses have to combine their studies with work, live with their little daughter in a private apartment, and experience financial difficulties. Everyday life began to annoy Nella, but her husband annoys her even more. Sergey is a good man who loves his wife and daughter, but to his wife he seems clumsy, clumsy, too soft and therefore unable to stand up for himself. Volkov, the head of the department where Nelya works, is another matter. The complete opposite of Sergei, on the contrary, he is an enterprising, successful man, a real man and a standard of reliability…

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Directed by
Tofik Shakhverdiyev
Genres
Drama
Starring
Mariya Solomina, Aleksandr Abdulov, Kira Romanova
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • love
  • class
  • work
  • identity
Places
  • big city
  • home
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism8
Romance5
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Tofik Shakhverdiyev
Written by
Anatoli Grebnev
Starring
Mariya Solomina, Aleksandr Abdulov, Kira Romanova, Emmanuil Vitorgan, Ernst Romanov, Tatjana Manevskaja, Anatoliy Gorin, Pavel Pankov
Music
Isaac Schwarts
Cinematography
Nikolai Pokoptsev
Runtime
81 min
Country
Soviet Union
Languages
Russian

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