The House I Live In

The House I Live In

95 mins | Drama | Dec. 23, 1957

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.

The House I Live In

95 mins | Drama | Dec. 23, 1957

The House I Live In
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.
IMDb rating 7.7
Producers Gorky Film Studios
Original title Дом, в котором я живу
Directors Yakov Segel, Lev Kulidzhanov
Writers Iosif Olshansky

Cast

Valentina Telegina

as Klavdiya Davydova

Nikolai Yelizarov

as Pavel Davydov

Vladimir Zemlyanikin

as Seryozha Davydov

Yuri Myasnikov

as Seryozha Davydov in childhood

Yevgeni Matveyev

as Konstantin Davydov

Rimma Shorokhova

as Katya Davydova

Pavel Shalnov

as Nikolai

Mikhail Ulyanov

as Dmitri Kashirin

Ninel Myshkova

as Lida

Klavdiya Yelanskaya

as Actress

Zhanna Bolotova

as Galya Volynskaya

Zoya Danilina

as Galya Volynskaya in childhood

Kleopatra Alperova

as Yelena Volynskaya

Lev Kulidzhanov

as Vadim Volynsky

Praskovya Postnikova

as neighbour of the Volynsky family

Yekaterina Mazurova

as Serafima

Vadim Novikov

as Igor