The Girl with a Hatbox
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The Girl with a Hatbox is a Soviet
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 silent film of Boris Barnet starring Anna Sten
Anna Sten
Anna Sten was a Ukrainian-born Russian silent film actress and later a Hollywood film star. She began her career in stage plays and films in Russia before travelling to Germany, where she starred in several films...

, Vladimir Mikhailov and Vladimir Fogel
Vladimir Fogel
Vladimir Pavlovich Fogel was a Russian silent film actor.-Filmography:*Salamandra as Bankier*Zemlya v plenu as Baron's son-in-law *Dom na Trubnoy as Mr...

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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
    Anna Sten
    Anna Sten was a Ukrainian-born Russian silent film actress and later a Hollywood film star. She began her career in stage plays and films in Russia before travelling to Germany, where she starred in several films...

     as Natasha
  • Vladimir Mikhailov as her grandfather
  • Vladimir Fogel
    Vladimir Fogel
    Vladimir Pavlovich Fogel was a Russian silent film actor.-Filmography:*Salamandra as Bankier*Zemlya v plenu as Baron's son-in-law *Dom na Trubnoy as Mr...

    as Fogelev
  • Ivan Koval-Samborsky as Ilya Snegiryov
  • Serafima Birman as Madame Irène
  • Pavel Pol as Irène's Husband
  • Eva Milyutina as Marfusha
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