PRIVACY INSIDE SOVIET COMMUNAL LIFE IN THE FILM ДЫЛДА BY KANTEMIR BALAGOV

Authors

Erischa Dwi Shintamega, Department of Russian Studies Faculty of Humanities, Universitas IndonesiaFollow
Thera Widyastuti, Fakultas Ilmu Pengetahuan Budaya, Universitas IndonesiaFollow

Abstract

Russia has a culture of communal living that already existed far before the Soviet era. In the soviet regime, communal living was seen as an instrument to reach Soviet’s utopian objective. In order to minimize dissident movements and rebellions, people are pressed to live together so they can watch each other. As a result, no Russian word could describe privacy, the concept itself did not grow in Russian society. Although consciousness of privacy needs began to grow. In the meantime, people around the world start to fix privacy issues by formulating the law, while Soviet people still dealing with the concept itself. Many of Russian films shows the privacy issue in Soviet communal life, one of them is a film by Kantemir Balagov (2019) titled Дылда/Dylda (Beanpole). The film is relatively new, therefore, not much previous research about it. By analyzing how the film Дылда shows privacy in Soviet communal life, it will reveal that now is seeing privacy as an issue. With the three dimensional view of CDA, the result obtained is that critiques arise for this ‘crisis of privacy’ as a consequence of lacking privacy by people outside Soviet.

Recommended Citation

Shintamega, Erischa Dwi and Widyastuti, Thera (2021) "PRIVACY INSIDE SOVIET COMMUNAL LIFE IN THE FILM ДЫЛДА BY KANTEMIR BALAGOV," International Review of Humanities Studies: Vol. 6: No. 1, Article 17.
Available at: https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/irhs/vol6/iss1/17