The Tailor from Torzhok

Name: The Tailor from Torzhok
Director: Yakov Protazanov
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1925-04-09
Duration: 65 min
Cast: Igor Ilyinsky, Vera Maretskaya, Lidiya Deikun, Iosif Tolchanov, Olga Zhizneva

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1925 · 65 min · Comedy · TMDB 4.2/10

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.

Directed by Yakov Protazanov

Cast

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