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The Pokrovsky Gates
Покровские ворота
1983 · Film
Directed by Mikhail Kozakov
Stories from the lives of the tenants of the Moscow's communal apartment: Kostik, who is a college student, lives with his aunt while studying; Arkady Velyurov who is a performing artist; Khobotovs, who are a divorced couple; and Sava, who is Margarita Khobotov's new fiancé. All these people live in one apartment and their lives constantly touch each other's.
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There are still a lot of "communalkas" in russia. In Saint Petersburg there were 76 600 of them in 2017 [1] and in Moscow 58 000 in 2008 (down from 118 000 in 1998) [2]. These are only that "communalkas" that are owned by the people that live in them. You can imagine how hard it is to turn a "communalka" into a flat that is owned by a single family. If somebody tries to buy the whole "communalka" any owner can refuse to sell and every owner has the "first right" to any part of the "communalka" so owners that want to sell their part have to get signed refusals of that right from all other owners.
There are also flats that have single owner but rented as "communalkas" to multiple families, and number of these flats is growing.
You can see "communalkas" in many soviet and russian movies, for example in "The Pokrovsky Gate" (1982) [3].
1 [rus] - https://mirndv.ru/blog/peterburg-gorod-mostov-belyh-nochej-i-kommunalok/
2 [rus] - https://www.cian.ru/novosti-v-rossii-po-prezhnemu-mnogo-kommunalok-230249/
3 [rus] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo5PiDzYQCg