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.
Social & External
The people behind it
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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