1924 · comedy · silent · romance
The Cigarette Girl from Mosselprom
Directed by Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky1h 53m1924
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.
Our read: The Cigarette Girl from Mosselprom (1924) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive comedy · silent · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / silent, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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