''House for the Rich'' () is a 2000 Russian
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
directed by Vladimir Fokin.
Plot
The film is set in the apartment of an old Moscow mansion. In the middle of the 19th century, the squandering nobleman Burkovsky sells the family home, and from that moment the apartment begins its transformation and it gets interwoven with the destinies of the people who have inhabited it: from the
Narodnaya Volya
Narodnaya Volya () was a late 19th-century revolutionary socialist political organization operating in the Russian Empire, which conducted assassinations of government officials in an attempt to overthrow the autocratic Tsarist system. The org ...
members to the
Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, were a radical Faction (political), faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, ...
commissars, from the terrible communal apartment to the re-creation of the chic apartments by the
"new Russian" Rumyanov - satirist, poet, actor. Hosts and lodgers, aristocrats and petty bourgeoises, believers and atheists - each of the many heroes lived their only life in the way they thought right as it happened to them ...
Cast
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Valentin Gaft
Valentin Iosifovich Gaft (; 2 September 1935 – 12 December 2020) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He was a People's Artist of the RSFSR (1984).
Biography Early life and education
Gaft was born in Moscow to Jewish parents, Iosif Ruvimovich Gaft ...
- Roman Rumyanov
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Vladimir Yeryomin - Evgeniy Burkovskiy
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Konstantin Khabensky
Konstantin Yurievich Khabensky, People's Artist of Russia, PAR (; born 11 January 1972) is a Russian actor of stage and film, director and philanthropist.
From 1997 he was part of the Saint Petersburg Lensoviet Theatre cast until 2000, after whi ...
- Yuri Sapozhnikov
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Yuri Stepanov - Serafim Pukhov (all ages)
* Valery Barinov - Akim Shpet
* Sergey Vinogradov - Georgiy Maksimov
* Polina Fokina - Kseniya Maksimova
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Tatiana Okunevskaya
Tatiana Kirillovna Okunevskaya (; 3 March 1914 – 15 May 2002) was a Soviet and Russian actress.
Life
Okunevskaya was born in Konakovsky District, Zavidovo, Moscow Governorate, in 1914. She was active in Soviet film and theatre from 1933 to 19 ...
- Anna Kazimirovna (old)
* Irina Grinyova - Anna Kazimirovna (young)
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Yevgeny Sidikhin
Yevgeny Vladimirovich Sidikhin () is a Russian film and theater actor and television presenter.
Early life and education
Sidikhin was born in Leningrad, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Peter ...
- Alexei Serebriakov
* Antonina Dmitrieva - Anna Stepanovna "Nyura" (old)
* Lyubava Aristarkhova - Nyura (young)
* Elena Kucherenko - Ira Sapozhnikova
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Valery Garkalin
Valery Borisovich Garkalin (; 11 April 1954 – 20 November 2021) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor. He was awarded the People's Artist of the Russian Federation in 2008. Garkalin was also a professor of GITIS.
Personal life
He was ...
- Captain Skorokhodov
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Larisa Luzhina - Marina Mikhailovna
* Elena Romanova - Larisa
* Daria Mikhailova - Marina
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Yuri Nazarov - Vladilen Serebriakov
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Vladimir Sterzhakov - architect
* Lyubov Germanova - art expert
* Sergey Shekhovtsov - Gena
* Nina Persiyaninova - Gena's wife
* Irina Znamenshchikova - communal apartment inhabitant
* Alexey Kiryushchenko - gendarme
* Andrei Butin - gendarme
* Alexey Karpov - NKVD employee
* Danila Perov - NKVD employee
Awards
* Prize "Bronze Pegasus" (Vladimir Fokin) at the Moscow Pegasus Film Festival in 2000.
* Nomination for the
Golden Aries in the category Best Screenplay (Anatoly Grebnev) in 2000.
* Special diploma of the jury of Belarusian cinematographers for the visual design of the film (Lyudmila Kusakova, Mikhail Kartashov) at the international film festival of the CIS and Baltic countries "Falling Leaves" in Minsk in 2000.
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Nika in the category Best Screenplay (Anatoly Grebnev) in 2000.
References
External links
{{IMDb title, tt0298837
Russian drama films
2000 drama films
2000 films
2000s Russian films
2000s Russian-language films
Russian-language drama films