The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom (1924)
As she works in her tedious office job, Maria Ivanovna dreams about being married, and she has particular hopes that her co-worker Nikodim Mityushin will take an interest in her. Nikodim, though, is in love with Zina, who sells cigarettes on the sidewalk, and he frequently buys cigarettes from her even though he does not smoke. One day, a film crew uses Zina as an extra in an outdoor scene, and the cameraman, Latugin, falls in love with her. Latugin soon arranges an acting job for Zina. To complicate matters further, Zina has yet another admirer in Oliver MacBride, an American businessman who is visiting Moscow.
Director: Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky
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Yuliya Solntseva as Zina Vesenina, cigarette girl |
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Igor Ilyinsky as Nikodim Mityushin, bookkeeper |
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Nikolai Tseretelli as Latugin, cameraman |
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Anna Dmokhovskaya as Maria Ivanovna |
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Leonid Baratov as film director |
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Mark Tsibulsky as Oliver Mak-Brayt amerikanets |
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Mikhail Zharov as sluzhashchiy i nosil'shchik |
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Galina Kravchenko as kinoaktrisa |
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Nikolay Vishnyak as |
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Naum Rogozhin as Film actor |
| Directing | Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky | Director |
| Writing | Fyodor Otsep | Writer |
| Writing | Aleksei Fajko | Writer |
| Art | Sergei Kozlovsky | Painter |
| Art | Vladimir Ballyuzek | Production Design |
| Camera | Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky | Director of Photography |
| Production | Moisey Aleynikov | Producer |