A lost Soviet screwball comedy where accountants scheme and typists scheme harder.
Production
Surviving stills suggest elaborate office sets for 1926.
Costume
Pyotr Repnin's accountant apparently wore a spectacular mustache.
Director
Aleksandr Talanov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title translates literally as 'A Screw from Another Machine' — Soviet slang for a misfit or troublemaker.
Most Soviet silent comedies were deliberately destroyed or decomposed; fewer than 15% survive. This one likely perished in the 1950s 'cleansing' of pre-Socialist Realism works.
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