''The House in the Snow-Drifts'' () is a 1928 Soviet drama film directed by

Fridrikh Ermler Fridrikh Markovich Ermler (russian: Эрмлер, Фридрих Маркович; born Vladimir Markovich Breslav; 13 May 1898 in Rēzekne – 12 July 1967 in Leningrad) was a Soviet film director, actor, and screenwriter. He was a four-tim ...

. The story is set in

Petrograd Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

in 1919 and follows an unemployed musician who tries to help his sick wife. The film is based on the short story "The Cave" by

Yevgeny Zamyatin Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin ( rus, Евге́ний Ива́нович Замя́тин, p=jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ zɐˈmʲætʲɪn; – 10 March 1937), sometimes anglicized as Eugene Zamyatin, was a Russian author of science fictio ...

. It was released in the Soviet Union on 23 March 1928.

Cast

Fyodor Nikitin Fyodor Mikhailovich Nikitin (russian: Фёдор Миха́йлович Ники́тин; May 3, 1900 in Lokhvytsia – July 17, 1988 in Moscow) was a Soviet film and theater actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR. Winner of two Stalin Prizes firs ...

* Tatyana Okova * Valeri Solovtsov as Profiteer Neighbour * A. Bastunova * Yakov Gudkin * Galina Shaposhnikova * Valeri Plotnikov * Aleksey Maseev

References

1928 drama films 1928 films Films based on short fiction Films based on works by Yevgeny Zamyatin Films directed by Fridrikh Ermler Soviet drama films Soviet silent feature films Soviet black-and-white films Silent drama films {{1920s-USSR-film-stub