The Girl With A Hat Box

The Girl With Hat Box

classified 12A S

part of Slapstick Festival 2025

Film

Fri 14 Feb 09:30

Director
Boris Barnet
Details
60 mins, & Subtitled, 1927, USSR

The Girl With A Hat Box is a delicious screwball rom-com directed by Boris Barnet, often hailed as the master of Soviet silent cinema.

It stars the Ukrainian/Swedish beauty Anna Sten, who was later whisked to Hollywood by Sam Goldwyn who dubbed her ‘the new Greta Garbo’.

In the film, Sten plays a hat maker caught in a love triangle and challenges involving a room rental scam and a winning lottery ticket.

Introduced by Lucy Porter.

With live piano accompaniment by Daan van den Hurk


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