''The Adventures of Oktyabrina'' (russian: Похождения Октябрины, Pokhozhdeniya Oktyabriny) is a 1924

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, an eccentric

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, directed by Grigori Kozintsev and

Leonid Trauberg Leonid Zakharovich Trauberg (russian: Леонид Захарович Трауберг, 17 January 1902 – 14 November 1990) was a Ukrainian Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films between 1924 and 1961 and was awarded the S ...

.ПОХОЖДЕНИЯ ОКТЯБРИНЫ
Ленфильм. Аннотированный каталог фильмов (1918-2003). Дмитрий Иванеев, Ольга Аграфенина, Александр Поздняков, Светлана Коломоец, Ольга Бондарева, Ирина Филатова, Татьяна Николаенкова. 2004. This film is presumed

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, as it and many other early Russian films are believed to have been destroyed in a studio fire in 1925. FEKS (ФЭКС) stands for «Фабрика эксцентрического актёра», "Factory of the Eccentric Actor", and ''The adventures of Oktyabrina'' was their first work.ПОХОЖДЕНИЯ ОКТЯБРИНЫ
Энциклопедия кино. 2010.

Synopsis

Oktyabrina, a female Komsomol member and a building superintendent evict a "

Nepman NEPmen (russian: Нэпманы, translit=Nepmani) were businesspeople in the early Soviet Union, who took advantage of the opportunities for private trade and small-scale manufacturing provided under the New Economic Policy (NEP, 1921-1928). The ...

" to the roof of the building for persistent non-payment of the rent. There the Nepman opens a bottle of beer, from which a " Coolidge Curzon Poincaré" emerges. The name is concocted to be an epitome of evil, made from the names of the anti-Soviet politicians of the time, routinely bashed in the Soviet press. Together the Nepman and the genie plot to rob

Gosbank Gosbank (russian: Госбанк, Государственный банк СССР, ''Gosudarstvenny bank SSSR''—the State Bank of the USSR) was the central bank of the Soviet Union and the only bank in the entire country from 1922 to 1991. ...

, but are deterred by Oktyabrina with the help of fellow Komsomol members and engineering marvels of the time.

Cast

* Zinaida Tarakhovskaya - Oktyabrina * Yevgeni Kumeyko - Nepman * Sergei Martinson - Coolidge Curzon Poincare * Antonio Tserep

References

External links

* 1924 films 1924 comedy films Soviet comedy films Russian comedy films Soviet silent short films Soviet black-and-white films Films directed by Grigori Kozintsev Films directed by Leonid Trauberg Lenfilm films Lost Russian films 1924 lost films Lost comedy films 1924 directorial debut films 1924 short films Russian silent short films Russian black-and-white films Lost Soviet films Silent comedy films 1920s Russian-language films {{1920s-USSR-film-stub