The Tailor from Torzhok (1925)

The Tailor from Torzhok (1925)

1925-04-09 Soviet Union 65 Min. PG-13
3.5 5 votes

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.

Cast

Игорь Ильинский is Petya Petelkin - Tailor
Petya Petelkin - Tailor
Анатолий Кторов is Anatoli - Young Lady's Fiancee
Anatoli - Young Lady's Fiancee
Lidiya Deikun is Widow Melania Ivanovna Shirinki
Widow Melania Ivanovna Shirinki
Iosif Tolchanov is V. I. Semizhilov
V. I. Semizhilov
Serafima Birman is Neighbor