by Iotis Erlewine
synopsis
This engaging comedy of manners finds a young peasant woman traveling to Moscow to start a new life. She takes a job as a servant for a oily barber and his wife who live in a crowded tenement. Satirical jabs are taken at bourgeois society and urban problems.
characteristics
- Fish Out Of Water
- Peasant
- Servant
- Man-servant
- Ghetto
- Class-system
