Papirosnitsa ot Mosselproma
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Papirosnitsa ot Mosselproma (English
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:The Cigarette Girl from Mosselprom)) is Soviet silent comedy
Silent comedy
Silent comedy refers to a style of acting, related to but distinct from mime, invented to bring comedy into the medium of film in the silent film era before a sound track on film was technologically practicable...

 film directed by Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky and starring Igor Ilyinsky
Igor Ilyinsky
Igor Vladimirovich Ilyinsky was a famous Russian actor and notable silent film comedian.-Early years:Igor Ilyinsky was born on 24 July 1901 in Moscow.At the age of 16 he entered the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre Studio and in half a year already debuted on the professional stage in Kommisarzhevskaya...

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Plot

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 (Igor Ilyinsky
Igor Ilyinsky
Igor Vladimirovich Ilyinsky was a famous Russian actor and notable silent film comedian.-Early years:Igor Ilyinsky was born on 24 July 1901 in Moscow.At the age of 16 he entered the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre Studio and in half a year already debuted on the professional stage in Kommisarzhevskaya...

) will take an interest in her. Nikodim, though, is in love with Zina (Yuliya Solntseva
Yuliya Solntseva
Yuliya Ippolitovna Solntseva was a Soviet film director and actress who starred in the silent sci-fi classic Aelita . She directed 14 films between 1939 and 1979...

), 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 (Nikolai Tseretelli
Nikolai Tseretelli
Nikolai Mikhailovich Tseretelli Nikolai Mikhailovich Tseretelli Nikolai Mikhailovich Tseretelli (Russian: Николай Михайлович Церетелли (1 October 1890 - 6 February 1942) was a Russian stage and silent film actor of Uzbek origin.-Filmography:*Papirosnitsa ot Mosselproma (1924) as Latugin, cameraman...

), 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
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 businessman who is visiting Moscow
Moscow
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Cast

  • Igor Ilyinsky
    Igor Ilyinsky
    Igor Vladimirovich Ilyinsky was a famous Russian actor and notable silent film comedian.-Early years:Igor Ilyinsky was born on 24 July 1901 in Moscow.At the age of 16 he entered the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre Studio and in half a year already debuted on the professional stage in Kommisarzhevskaya...

     as Nikodim Mityushin, bookeper
  • Yuliya Solntseva
    Yuliya Solntseva
    Yuliya Ippolitovna Solntseva was a Soviet film director and actress who starred in the silent sci-fi classic Aelita . She directed 14 films between 1939 and 1979...

     as Zina Vesenina, cigarette girl
  • Anna Dmokhovskaya as Maria Ivanovna
  • Nikolai Tseretelli
    Nikolai Tseretelli
    Nikolai Mikhailovich Tseretelli Nikolai Mikhailovich Tseretelli Nikolai Mikhailovich Tseretelli (Russian: Николай Михайлович Церетелли (1 October 1890 - 6 February 1942) was a Russian stage and silent film actor of Uzbek origin.-Filmography:*Papirosnitsa ot Mosselproma (1924) as Latugin, cameraman...

     as Latugin, cameraman
  • Leonid Baratov
    Leonid Baratov
    Leonid Vasilyeevich Baratov was a Soviet opera director and People's Artist of the RSFSR ....

    as Barsov-Aragonsky, film director
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