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The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom

192475 minSoviet Union
ComedyRomance

Synopsis

A cigarette seller attracts a customer who does not smoke but keeps returning to see her. A film crew's chance encounter with her creates another opportunity, and the cameraman helps her begin acting. An American businessman adds a further romantic complication, while an office worker waits for the attention of the man still buying those unnecessary cigarettes.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian.
This copy runs
74:56
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsYuri Zhelyabuzhsky

Historical context

The comedy brings street commerce, office routine and filmmaking into the same Moscow courtship story. Zina's movement from pavement vendor to performer gives the competing admirers different ideas about the future they might offer her.

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