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.
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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
Gleb Bushtuyev as House manager
Fridrikh Ermler Director
Boris Leonidov Writer
Evgeny Zamyatin Book
Evgeny Eney Production Design
Gleb Bushtuyev Director of Photography
Yevgeni Mikhajlov Director of Photography
Dom v sugrobakh Trailer
Дом в разрезе Trailer
Russia 23 March 1928
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Петроград. 1919 год. Безработный музыкант пытаясь помочь больной жене крадет дрова у соседа-спекулянта....
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A complete version of the film is held by Cineteca Del Friuli.
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