Word: life
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suppose the Russians exported The House I Live In to prove that family life among the Soviets is no different from family life anywhere else in the world. They have, unfortunately, also proved that warm, sentimental tear-jerkers are mediocre in any language. The Sovexportfilm is not really dull, it's just typical...
...that the brief stop of the President and 100 accompanying reporters is going to produce any dramatic change in the relations of these countries and the U.S., nor even much greater understanding on the part of these underdeveloped and nationalistic countries of the meaning of the "American way of life." What can and hopefully will occur is a greater realization and understanding of the problems these countries face; from their relations with China to the centralistic tendencies of their economies to the overriding fact of their poverty...
...true, of course, that time is on the side of the West. After all Scheherzade did save her life by merely talking. But then that was just a fairy tale...
Written by Peter Zharov, The House I Live In tells the story of three families who live in the same apartment house. The film begins in 1935 and follows their lives through the end of the war. People and movies being what they are, everybody's life intertwines. (This means, of course, young love for the children and occasional adultery for the adults...
...interrupts the proceedings and the men go to the front. Tearful scenes ensue--although it must be admitted that these are fairly convincingly played. Some of the men return, some don't, and the film ends where it began, with the now mature younger son watching his niece begin life the same way he did. The "cycle" is complete...