The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom
About The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom
Maria Ivanovna, bored at her Mosselprom desk, hopes the bookkeeper Nikodim Mityushin will marry her. Nikodim is after Zina, who sells cigarettes on the pavement, and he keeps buying them even though he does not smoke. A film crew uses Zina as an extra. Cameraman Latugin falls for her and gets her an acting job. An American visitor, Oliver MacBride, is after her as well.
Cast & crew
More about The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom
Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky directed. Aleksei Fajko and Fedor Ozep wrote the script. Igor Ilyinsky plays Nikodim, Yuliya Solntseva plays Zina Vesenina, and Anna Dmokhovskaya plays Maria. Nikolai Tseretelli plays Latugin. Mark Tsibulsky plays MacBride. Leonid Baratov plays the director Barsov-Aragonsky.
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Zhelyabuzhsky also photographed the film, including the street scene where the crew picks Zina out of the crowd.
Notes
- The Russian title is Папиросница от Моссельпрома.
Scenes
- Nikodim buys another pack from Zina and does not smoke it.
