THE HOUSE AT TRUBNAYA SQUARE

Recognised widely as a masterpiece of Soviet silent cinema, this is also a delightful comedy of manners satirising  contemporary life in Moscow during a time of  ever-shifting, often contradictory, policies, It stars Vera Maretskaya, a five times winner of the Stalin Prize for acting, as a country girl seeking her uncle in the big city and finding herself in a highly eccentric household.

Noted especially for its attention to comic timing, clever use of editing, innovative camera angles and for involving, despite having few inter-titles, five scriptwriters, all of them literary or political notables  Introduced by Pamela Hutchinson and with live piano accompaniment by John Sweeney .