The Tailor from Torzhok

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

Igor Ilyinsky

Petya Petelkin, tailor

Vera Maretskaya

Katya, housemaid

Lidiya Deikun

Melania Shirinkina, widow

Iosif Tolchanov

Semizhilov, vendor

Olga Zhizneva

Unknown young lady

Serafima Birman

Shirinkina's neighbour

Yeva Milyutina

Shirinkina's neighbour

Anatoli Ktorov

Anatoliy, city scamp

Vladimir Uralskiy

Union man (uncredited)

Naum Rogozhin

Guest (uncredited)

Nikolai Akimov

(uncredited)