The Girl with a Hatbox is a Soviet silent film of Boris
Barnet starring Anna Sten, Vladimir Mikhailov and Vladimir Fogel.
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.
