House in the Snow-Drifts

Nan
0h 49m
1927
5 /10 (2)

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.

Country : Soviet Union
Genre : Drama
Languages : Pусский
Released Date: 1927-04-01

Top Billed Cast

Fyodor Nikitin

Musician

Tatyana Okova

Musician's wife

Yakov Gudkin

Yasha

Galina Shaposhnikova

Galya, Yasha's sister

Aleksey Maseyev

Yasha's and Galya's father

Valeri Solovtsov

Neighbour-profiteer

A. Bastunova

Profiteer's wife

Viktor Plotnikov

Profiteer

Gleb Bushtuyev

House manager

Viktor Portnov

Manager's assistant

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