Selected scenes from feature films that show various aspects of life in a communal apartment.

Scenes from Our Neighbors [3:56]		Comic scenes of communal apartment life in the late 1950s from the feature film “Our Neighbors,” reproduced here by permission of the Belarusfilm movie studio. Director Sergei Sploshnov, screenplay by Mikhail Antonenkov and Ephraim Sevela. 1957.
Scenes from Five Evenings [2:04]		Three scenes of communal apartment life in the 1950s from the feature film "Five Evenings," reproduced here by permission of Mosfilm movie studio. Director Nikita Mikhalkov, screenplay by A. Volodin, 1978.
Scenes from Strange Grownups [6:57]		Comic scenes of communal apartment life in the 1970s from the feature film "Strange Grownups," reproduced here by permission of the Lenfilm movie studio. Director Ayan Shakhmalieva, screenplay by Maria Evereva and Arkady Minchkovsky. 1974.
Scenes from The Pokrov Gate [2:28]		Comic scenes of Moscow communal apartment life in the 1950s from the feature film "Pokrov Gates," reproduced here by permission of the Mosfilm movie studio. Director Mikhail Kozakov, screenplay by Leonid Zorin. 1982.
A scene from A Dog's Heart [3:55]		A scene related to uplotnenie (space allocation) from the film "A Dog's Heart," reproduced here by permission of the Lenfilm movie studio. Director Vladimir Bortko, screenplay by Natalia Bortko, based on the 1925 novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. 1988.
From The Magic Power of Art [11:21]		A funny (or perhaps not-so-funny?) story about a stage actor who helps an elderly woman bring her obnoxious neighbors to heel. By permission of the Lenfilm Movie Studio. Director, Naum Virman. Screenplay by Dragunsky. Featuring Arkady Raikin. 1970.