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The Tailor from Torzhok
1925, Apr 09
1h 5m
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.
Directed by
Yakov Protazanov
Written by
Valentin Turkin
Serafima Birman
Shirinkina's neighbour
Lidiya Deikun
Melania Shirinkina, widow
Igor Ilyinsky
Petya Petelkin, tailor
Yeva Milyutina
Shirinkina's neighbour
Nikolai Akimov
(uncredited)
Olga Zhizneva
Unknown young lady
Iosif Tolchanov
Semizhilov, vendor
Vladimir Uralskiy
Union man (uncredited)
Vera Maretskaya
Katya, housemaid
Naum Rogozhin
Guest (uncredited)
Anatoli Ktorov
Anatoliy, city scamp
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