The spiritual and material misery of a group of people inhabiting the hotel of the title during the War.
Lazar Skorokhod
Vanda
Stanislav Komorovsky
Zygmunt Dombek
Old weaver
Madame Rosa Skorokhodova
Yanek, cabdriver
Vasil, Anna's brother
Anna
Tomash, worker (as Viktor Shcheglov)