The Girl with the Hat Box

Boris Barnet, 1927: a Moscow hat-shop girl (Anna Sten) takes pity on a penniless student and a lottery ticket does the rest. Mezhrabpom. NEP-era comedy: housing shortages, a shared room, a girl who works. Barnet, the lightest of the Soviet directors, making a city film that is also a love story about a box. Sten would go to Hollywood and be wasted. Here she is the picture.