The Tailor from Torzhok
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April 9, 1925
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Comedy
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.
Featured Crew
Yakov Protazanov
Director
Valentin Turkin
Writer
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Cast
Igor Ilyinsky
Petya Petelkin - Tailor
Olga Zhiznyeva
Young Lady
Anatoli Ktorov
Anatoli - Young Lady's Fiancee
Vera Maretskaya
Katya
Lidiya Deikun
Widow Melania Ivanovna Shirinki