Obschezhitie in Russian literature and film?

[Katya Jordan]

"Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears" shows a dormitory for workers, not 
students.  The so-called "limitchiki" and "limitchitsy" were placed in dorm rooms 
when they came from the provinces and got employment in Moscow.  A 
heroine of Ashkenazi's film "Kriminal'nyi Talant" (1988) talks about all the hoops 
they had to jump through.  

There are several films about workers' dorms.  "Odinokim predostavliaetsia 
obshchezhitie" (1983) is another one.  So unless this students wants to write 
about dorms for workers who happened to be part-time students, he/she 
would have to sort carefully.

--Katya Jordan
University of Virginia

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