The Tailor from Torzhok

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

19251h 5mComedy

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.