House in the Snow-Drifts (1927)
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.
Director: Fridrikh Ermler
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Fyodor Nikitin as Musician |
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Tatyana Okova as Musician's wife |
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Yakov Gudkin as Yasha |
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Galina Shaposhnikova as Galya, Yasha's sister |
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Aleksey Maseyev as Yasha's and Galya's father |
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Valeri Solovtsov as Neighbour-profiteer |
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A. Bastunova as Profiteer's wife |
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Viktor Plotnikov as Profiteer |
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Gleb Bushtuyev as House manager |
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Viktor Portnov as Manager's assistant |
| Directing | Fridrikh Ermler | Director |
| Writing | Boris Leonidov | Writer |
| Writing | Evgeny Zamyatin | Book |
| Art | Evgeny Eney | Production Design |
| Camera | Gleb Bushtuyev | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Yevgeniy Mikhaylov | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Robert Mayman | Assistant Director |