The Tailor from Torzhok

04/09/1925

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1hr 5min

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Comedy

STORY

A 1925 Soviet comedy sponsored by the Soviet Finance Ministry, with a plot promoting the new economy. A small-town tailor, Petya Petelkin (Ilyinsky), bought a lottery ticket and handed it to his landlord, widow Shirinkina (Deykun) who wants to marry him. Petya is a hard-working tailor trying to start his own business. He is also in love with Katya (Maretskaya), whom he wants to marry. He has to survive a cascade of funny situations in the unstable Soviet reality, before his romance with Katya comes to a happy ending.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Igor Ilyinsky
  • Olga Zhiznyeva
  • Anatoli Ktorov
  • Vera Maretskaya
  • Lidiya Deikun

    Director

  • Yakov Protazanov

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Mezhrabpomfilm

    Production Countries

  • Soviet Union

LANGUAGES

  • No Language