House in the Snow-Drifts

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.

Cast

Fyodor Nikitin

as Musician

Tatyana Okova

as Musician's wife

Yakov Gudkin

as Yasha

Galina Shaposhnikova

as Galya, Yasha's sister

Aleksey Maseyev

as Yasha's and Galya's father

Valeri Solovtsov

as Neighbour-profiteer

A. Bastunova

as Profiteer's wife

Viktor Plotnikov

as Profiteer

Gleb Bushtuyev

as House manager

Viktor Portnov

as Manager's assistant

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