The Tailor from Torzhok

(1925)

★ 4.2 IMDb · 6 votes

Genres: Comedy

Year: 1925

Runtime: 65 мин

Country: Soviet Union

Director: Яков Протазанов

Cast: Игорь Ильинский, Вера Марецкая, Лидия Дейкун, Иосиф Толчанов, Ольга Жизнева, Серафима Бирман, Ева Милютина, Анатолий Кторов, Владимир Уральский, Наум Рогожин

Plot

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.