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- 1960

"You see, I Have This Problem with my little apartment."

A man ordered, polite, always arriving on time.

When he goes home after work, it ventilates the living room, doing the dishes and put away the bottles.

Yet this does not look like him leave his apartment without storing it: In fact, Baxter is accountable to the "Consolidated", a major insurance company in NYC. And his way up the ladder is to leave its key executives of the company will meet with their girlfriends.

It will help so many managers and finally the chief of staff to fully enjoy their extramarital affairs.
The only thing that Baxter did not foresee was that his feelings might play tricks on him by falling in love just the mistress Chief of Staff ...

Baxter is the nice guy that you would protect a large child delighted with his progress and his bowler hat. A man who, in his boundless kindness, takes upon himself the meanness of others and it is impossible to misjudge even if a pact with evil.

"The apartment" is not just a story about good and evil but also a satire without the virulence of the world modern work, hypocrisy and ambition fierce.

The first shot in camera in the office landscape shows people sitting at their desks like battery chickens. The complete anonymity prevails in these places and it is to get out that Baxter agrees to do things that he rejects all my heart. The moral message of the film does nothing to spoil the charm and humor of the film.

"The apartment" has captured images of unique American in the early 60s: the huge office where the employees seem totally subordinated to human mechanisms dehumanizing conformity and efficiency.

Oscars

The film, which won the Oscar for best film, refers to two films that also won the famous award. First Grand Hotel, the movie tries to watch CC Baxter on television but whose distribution is constantly delayed by advertising, and finally "The lost weekend", a film that has Billy Wilder won his first Oscar for best film, when the boss says Fran Baxter and Baxter lost a weekend in the apartment of the latter ...

Black and White

If we except "Schindler's List" in 1994, "The apartment" is the last film in black and white to win the Oscar for best film.

Shut up and deal

Like the famous "Nobody's Perfect" from "Some like it hot, "the last line from the movie" Shut up and deal "was written at the last minute during filming.