The House I Live In
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“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
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Valentina Telegina
Klavdiya Davydova
Known for
Ballad of a Soldier
Nikolai Yelizarov
Pavel Davydov
Also in
The Rescued Generation
Poem of the Sea
Vladimir Zemlyanikin
Seryozha Davydov
Also in
A Noisy Day
The Limit of Possible
Yuri Myasnikov
Seryozha Davydov in childhood
No other roles listed
Yevgeny Matveyev
Konstantin Davydov
Also in
Soldiers of Freedom
Love in Russian 2
Rimma Shorokhova
Katya Davydova
Known for
Spring on Zarechnaya Street
Pavel Shalnov
Nikolai
Also in
When the Trees Were High
And It's May Again
Mikhail Ulyanov
Dmitri Kashirin
Known for
The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment
Liberation - Part 3 : Direction of the Main Blow
Ninel Myshkova
Lida
Also in
Maria, the Wonderful Weaver
Ilya Muromets
Klavdiya Yelanskaya
Actress
Also in
Morozko
Zhanna Bolotova
Galya Volynskaya
Known for
Wings
Zoya Danilina
Galya Volynskaya in childhood
No other roles listed
Lev Kulidzhanov Director · Yakov Segel Director Iosif Olshansky Writer
First release December 23, 1957 · Produced in Russia · Original title Дом, в котором я живу
Production
Gorky Film Studios
Production
Russia
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Дом, в котором я живу
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · December 23, 1957
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
XC
October 10, 1958 · Theatrical
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