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A printer puts up an old friend on the sofa in the one room he shares with his wife, and within weeks the friend has the bed. The housing shortage is the plot and Room plays the arrangement as arithmetic, not scandal. When she gets pregnant and neither man is sure, she goes to the clinic, looks at the waiting room, and takes a train out of Moscow instead. She leaves both of them the key.
In two programmes
The montage generation looking indoors. One room, three people, and a woman the film sides with over both men.
Wanting in one room, treated as arithmetic. A husband, a lodger, a wife, and a housing shortage. Room lets her be pregnant, go to the clinic, look at a pram, and take a train. Watch who pays. She does, and then she stops paying.
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Further reading
- EssayA Film Rumination: Bed and Sofa, Abram Room (1927) — Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations (opens in a new tab)
- EssayRussia in Classic Film Blogathon: BED AND SOFA (1927) — Now Voyaging (opens in a new tab)
- EssayAn Appreciation of Bed and Sofa (1927) by David Robinson — Brenton Film (opens in a new tab)
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