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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 silent romantic comedy film directed by Boris Barnet and starring
Anna Sten Anna Sten ( ua, А́нна Стен; born Anna Petrivna Fesak, December 3, 1908November 12, 1993) was a Ukrainian-born American actress. She began her career in stage plays and films in the Soviet Union before traveling to Germany, where she st ...
, 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

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Anna Sten Anna Sten ( ua, А́нна Стен; born Anna Petrivna Fesak, December 3, 1908November 12, 1993) was a Ukrainian-born American actress. She began her career in stage plays and films in the Soviet Union before traveling to Germany, where she st ...
as Natasha * Vladimir Mikhailov as her grandfather * Vladimir Fogel as Fogelev *
Ivan Koval-Samborsky Ivan Koval-Samborsky ( Ukrainian: Іван Коваль-Самборський; 16 September 1893 – 10 January 1962) was a Ukrainian stage and film actor. After establishing himself in the Soviet film industry in the 1920s, he briefly went to w ...
as Ilya Snegiryov *
Serafima Birman Serafima Germanovna Birman (russian: Серафима Германовна Бирман, link=no; – 11 May 1976) was a Soviet and Russian actress, theatre director and writer. People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1946).
as Irène's Husband *Eva Milyutina as Marfusha


See also

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The Three Million Trial ''The Three Million Trial'' (russian: Процесс о трех миллионах, italic=yes) is a 1926 cinema of the Soviet Union, Soviet silent comedy film starring Igor Ilyinsky and directed by Yakov Protazanov based on the play ''The Thre ...
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The House on Trubnaya ''The House on Trubnaya'' (russian: Дом на Трубной, Dom na Trubnoy) is a 1928 comedy film directed by Boris Barnet and starring Vera Maretskaya. Plot The film is set in Moscow at the height of the New Economic Policy, NEP. The petty ...
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* 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