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Offered for Singles

Name: Offered for Singles
Director: Samson Samsonov
Released: 1983
Duration: 89 min

Representation Score

2.1/10

Limited

1983

Director

Samson Samsonov

Runtime

89 minutes

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New Showbiz Analysis

Offered for Singles is a character-driven comedy that examines the social mechanics of matchmaking in a Soviet hostel. While the film allows women to take active roles in managing their social circles, the narrative structure still adheres to conventional romantic outcomes. The film operates as a traditional social comedy, depicting a world driven by communal matchmaking but ultimately reinforcing institutional norms rather than disrupting them. Because the story prioritizes domestic happiness and traditional marriage, it lacks the complexity of intersecting identities or the intentional subversion of hierarchies found in more progressive cinema.

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Category Breakdown

Does Offered for Singles have LGBTQ+ representation?

Minimal

The story focuses on traditional romantic pursuits and matchmaking through wedding announcements. There is no indication of non-straight or non-cisgender identities or critiques of the assumption that everyone is straight or cisgender.

How does Offered for Singles portray gender?

Fair

Female characters like Vera play significant roles in managing their social circles within the hostel. However, the story concludes with a traditional romantic relationship between the male commandant and a female lead.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Offered for Singles?

Limited

The film portrays class-based roles such as textile workers and commandants. It seems to follow a homogeneous social structure typical of its time period.

How does Offered for Singles represent religion and culture?

Limited

The narrative emphasizes traditional social institutions, particularly marriage and communal living. It highlights social cohesion and the pursuit of domestic happiness within a stable social unit.

Does Offered for Singles include disability representation?

Minimal

The film does not include characters with visible or invisible disabilities.

Present on Screen

Female characters like Vera play significant roles in managing their social circles within the hostel.
The film offers a detailed look at the social ecosystem and communal living within a Soviet hostel setting.

Limited or Absent

The narrative relies on traditional romantic trajectories and conventional marriage structures.
The film lacks representation of non-straight or non-cisgender identities or diverse sexual orientations.
There is no evidence of characters with disabilities or explorations of diverse ethnic identities.

Official Synopsis

Vera Golubeva, a textile worker, lives in a hostel. In her spare time, she arranges the fate of her friends. Although the class is disinterested and informal, Faith comes up to him professionally: working with the press, send out wedding announcements across the Soviet Union carefully selects and grooms. Vera herself is lonely, walking at other people's weddings, forgot to dream of her own family happiness. In a purely female team of the hostel there is a new commandant Viktor Petrovich. At first, he tries to fight with the established order and close the marriage office of Faith. But soon Victor begins to realize that Faith is the very woman he sought all his life…

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