Classic movie men fish to light woman's cigarette

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.

From a single camera position, two young women are photographed lighting a cigarette. After several puffs, one of the young ladies becomes faint, and the other one tries to revive her fallen friend.

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.

Two girls at home on their living room sofa. They watch something on the TV screen: a man appears, he's looking up, there's a cigar in his mouth. He's wearing glasses, with smoked lenses, a visor on his head, a blue visor. White letters appear on the black background. He blinks. White letters appear, he looks down. He draws smoke, takes a drag. Pulls the cigar out of his mouth. Smoke comes out. He keeps looking up.

A young man and woman base their love on lies that eventually manage to come true.

The cigarette saleswoman from the 1924 film of the same name ends up with her stall in Moscow in the 1960s. Moscow has changed. Mosselprom is long gone. Passers-by are not particularly interested in her product. The policeman asks her to leave the busy place and not disturb passers-by. The girl wanders around the city, looking for a place for herself. But the new city is alien and it only makes her head spin. There is only one choice left - to go back to the past. Course work of Sulambek Mamilov

Only 8 surviving seconds of a man getting great pleasure from smoking a cigar.

The story of a man who is trying to quit smoking because he doesn't want to be trapped in the memories.