Movie

The Tailor from Torzhok

★ 4.2/10 · 6 votes 1925 1h 5m Released

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.

Cast

Igor Ilyinsky Petya Petelkin, tailor Vera Maretskaya Katya, housemaid Lidiya Deikun Melania Shirinkina, widow Iosif Tolchanov Semizhilov, vendor Olga Zhizneva Unknown young lady Serafima Birman Shirinkina's neighbour