The Tailor from Torzhok

The Tailor from Torzhok

1925
1h 5m
3.5

3.5/10

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Comedy
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.

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Language: RU

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Production Information

Production Companies
Mezhrabpomfilm
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Spoken Languages
No Language

Keywords

lottery ticket

Quick Facts

Original Title Закройщик из Торжка
Release Date April 9, 1925
Status Released
Language RU
IMDb ID tt0016559

Cast

Igor Ilyinsky
Igor Ilyinsky

Petya Petelkin, tailor

Vera Maretskaya
Vera Maretskaya

Katya, housemaid

Lidiya Deikun
Lidiya Deikun

Melania Shirinkina, widow

Iosif Tolchanov
Iosif Tolchanov

Semizhilov, vendor

Olga Zhizneva
Olga Zhizneva

Unknown young lady

Serafima Birman
Serafima Birman

Shirinkina's neighbour

Yeva Milyutina
Yeva Milyutina

Shirinkina's neighbour

Anatoli Ktorov
Anatoli Ktorov

Anatoliy, city scamp

Vladimir Uralskiy
Vladimir Uralskiy

Union man (uncredited)

Naum Rogozhin
Naum Rogozhin

Guest (uncredited)

Nikolai Akimov
Nikolai Akimov

(uncredited)

Key Crew

Yakov Protazanov
Director
Valentin Turkin
Writer