The Cottage of Reflections

Radio drama based on Agnia Kuznetsova’s story “Earthly Bow.”

Abstract from the GosTekhRadioFund: “An old, abandoned bathhouse, built even before the Revolution and turned by schoolchildren into a sort of club, was among them called ‘a hut of reflection.’ It became the place where they argued and dreamed, where their convictions formed. The school teacher Nikolay Mikhailovich managed to give new meaning to the teenagers’ lives by taking part in their conversations and drawing them into activities aimed at studying the history of their native region.”

Script adaptation author: Nikolay Alexandrovich
Director: Nina Biryulina
Composer: Pavel Aedonitsky
Symphony orchestra conducted by Konstantin Krimts
Bulata Okudzhava’s song “Let’s Take Hands, Friends”
Broadcast editor: M. Ashkinezер

Characters and performers:
Teacher Nikolay Mikhailovich Grozny — Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Natasha Kovrigina — Elena Proklova
Lalya Kedrina — Tatyana Reshetnikova
Semyon Neverov — Vsevolod Abdulov
Nikita Pronin — Viktor Buchmenyuk
Nastya — Tatyana Aksyuta
Goga Tsiposhvili — Alec Ocheretyansky
Boris Korolyov — Mikhail Lobanov
Zoya — Irina Bordukova
Olga Nikolaevna — Natalia Litvinova
Nikolay — Andrey Myagkov
Mitrofan Nikitich — Andrey Tarasov
Father Teryenty — Evgeny Shutov
Eфросинья — Vera Vasileva
Denis Shmyga — Vyacheslav Shumilov
Darya Grigorievna — Klementina Rostovtseva
Matveev — Afanasiy Kochetkov
Pankratikha — Tatyana Peltzer
Vasiliy Martynovich — Georgy Zhzhonov
Veretennikov (father) — Oleg Shtefaniko
Veretennikov (son) — Georgy Kulikov
gymnasium director — Vladimir Kenigson
Lyubava — Anna Kamenkova