The Tailor from Torzhok

    The Tailor from Torzhok
    1925

    Synopsis

    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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    Cast

    • Igor IlyinskyPetya Petelkin - Tailor
    • Olga ZhiznyevaYoung Lady
    • Anatoli KtorovAnatoli - Young Lady's Fiancee
    • Vera MaretskayaKatya
    • Lidiya DeikunWidow Melania Ivanovna Shirinki
    • Iosif TolchanovV. I. Semizhilov
    • Serafima BirmanNeighbor
    • Yeva Milyutina
    • Vladimir UralskiyUnion Man

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