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.
Top billed cast
Fyodor NikitinMusician- Tatyana OkovaMusician's wife
Yakov GudkinYasha- Galina ShaposhnikovaGalya, Yasha's sister
- Aleksey MaseyevYasha's and Galya's father
Valeri SolovtsovNeighbour-profiteer- A. BastunovaProfiteer's wife
- Viktor PlotnikovProfiteer
- Gleb BushtuyevHouse manager
- Viktor PortnovManager's assistant
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