The Tailor from Torzhok

The Tailor from Torzhok

1h 5m 3.5/10

Overview

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.

Director

Yakov Protazanov

Top Billed Cast

Igor Ilyinsky

Igor Ilyinsky

Petya Petelkin, tailor

Serafima Birman

Serafima Birman

Shirinkina's neighbour

Vera Maretskaya

Vera Maretskaya

Katya, housemaid

Olga Zhizneva

Olga Zhizneva

Unknown young lady

Iosif Tolchanov

Iosif Tolchanov

Semizhilov, vendor

Lidiya Deikun

Lidiya Deikun

Melania Shirinkina, widow

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