House in the Snow-Drifts

Overview

An adaptation of Evgenii Zamiatin’s short story “The Cave,” about a musician dying of hunger in his large, unheated Petersburg apartment because he was not needed in the revolutionary city.

Directed by Fridrikh Ermler

Top cast

Fyodor Nikitin

Musician

Tatyana Okova

Musician's wife

Yakov Gudkin

Yasha

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Galina Shaposhnikova

Galya, Yasha's sister

A

Aleksey Maseyev

Yasha's and Galya's father

Valeri Solovtsov

Neighbour-profiteer

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A. Bastunova

Profiteer's wife

Viktor Plotnikov

Profiteer

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Gleb Bushtuyev

House manager

Viktor Portnov

Manager's assistant

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