Congestion

Summary

In a narrative steeped in the burgeoning intellectual and social ferment of post-revolutionary Russia, 'Congestion' meticulously unfurls the transformation within a venerable professor's domicile. Initially a bastion of academic solitude, his apartment becomes an unexpected crucible for dialectical exchange, as a procession of factory laborers, driven by an innate thirst for knowledge or perhaps a nascent class consciousness, seek his counsel. This informal intellectual salon catalyzes a profound shift in the professor, prompting him to transcend the ivory tower and disseminate his erudition within the very heart of the proletariat—the workers' club. Concurrently, a parallel, more intimate revolution unfolds. His younger son, drawn by an irresistible magnetism, finds his intellectual and emotional compass reoriented by the daughter of a factory worker. Their burgeoning affection, culminating in a decision to marry, serves as a poignant microcosm of the film's larger thematic architecture: the dissolution of traditional class barriers and the forging of a new societal synthesis through shared experience, intellectual enlightenment, and human connection.

Synopsis

In the apartment of a professor is visited by various factory workers and the professor decides to start lecturing in the working club. The younger son falls in love with the worker's daughter and they decide to get married.