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.
The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom (1924) movie
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Silent film
Production Co: Mezhrabpom-Rus
Directed by Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky
Writing Credits: Aleksei Fajko, Fyodor Otsep
Cinematography by Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky
Art Direction by Vladimir Ballyuzek, Sergei Kozlovsky
Cast:
Yuliya Solntseva as Zina Vesenina, cigarette girl
Igor Ilyinsky as Nikodim Mityushin, bookkeeper
Anna Dmokhovskaya as Maria Ivanovna
Nikolai Tsereteli as Latugin, cameraman
Leonid Baratov as Barsov-Aragonsky, film director
M. Tsybulsky as Oliver Mac-Bride, American