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''The Girl with a Hatbox'' or ''Moscow That Laughs and Weeps'' (russian: Девушка с коробкой, Devushka s korobkoy) is a 1927
Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...
silent
romantic comedy Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typica ...
film directed by
Boris Barnet Boris Vasilyevich Barnet (russian: Бори́с Васи́льевич Ба́рнет; 18 June 1902 – 8 January 1965) was a Soviet film director, actor and screenwriter of British heritage. He directed 27 films between 1927 and 1963. Barne ...
and starring Anna Sten, Vladimir Mikhailov and Vladimir Fogel. The picture was commissioned by the People's Commissariat (Narkomfin) to promote government bonds. It was a success with the audiences and the critics alike.


Plot

Natasha and her grandfather live in a cottage near Moscow, making hats for Madame Irène. Madame and her husband have told the housing committee that Natasha rents a room from them; this fiddle gives Madame's lazy husband a room for lounging. The local railroad clerk, Fogelev, loves Natasha but she takes a shine to Ilya, a clumsy student who sleeps in the train station. To help Ilya, Natasha marries him and takes him to Madame's to live in the room the house committee thinks is hers. Meanwhile, Madame's husband pays Natasha with a lottery ticket he thinks is a loser, and when it comes up big, just as Ilya and Natasha are falling in love, everything gets complicated...


Cast

* Anna Sten as Natasha * Vladimir Mikhailov as her grandfather * Vladimir Fogel as Fogelev * Ivan Koval-Samborsky as Ilya Snegiryov * Serafima Birman as Madame Irène * Pavel Pol as Irène's Husband *Eva Milyutina as Marfusha


See also

*'' The Three Million Trial'' *'' The House on Trubnaya''


References


External links

* 1927 romantic comedy films Russian romantic comedy films Soviet black-and-white films Russian silent feature films Soviet romantic comedy films Films directed by Boris Barnet Soviet silent feature films Russian black-and-white films Silent romantic comedy films 1920s Russian-language films {{1920s-USSR-film-stub