Overview

As she works in her tedious office job, Maria Ivanovna dreams about being married, and she has particular hopes that her co-worker Nikodim Mityushin will take an interest in her. Nikodim, though, is in love with Zina, who sells cigarettes on the sidewalk, and he frequently buys cigarettes from her even though he does not smoke. One day, a film crew uses Zina as an extra in an outdoor scene, and the cameraman, Latugin, falls in love with her. Latugin soon arranges an acting job for Zina. To complicate matters further, Zina has yet another admirer in Oliver MacBride, an American businessman who is visiting Moscow.

Top Cast

Yuliya Solntseva

Zina Vesenina, cigarette girl

Igor Ilyinsky

Nikodim Mityushin, bookkeeper

N

Nikolai Tseretelli

Latugin, cameraman

Anna Dmokhovskaya

Maria Ivanovna

Leonid Baratov

film director

M

Mark Tsibulsky

Oliver Mak-Brayt amerikanets

Mikhail Zharov

sluzhashchiy i nosil'shchik

Galina Kravchenko

kinoaktrisa

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Nikolay Vishnyak

Naum Rogozhin

Film actor