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The Tailor from Torzhok (1925)

April 9, 1925 (SU) Comedy • 65m

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.

Director

Yakov Protazanov

Top Billed

Igor Ilyinsky

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Top Billed Cast

Igor Ilyinsky
Igor Ilyinsky

Petya Petelkin, tailor

Vera Maretskaya
Vera Maretskaya

Katya, housemaid

Lidiya Deikun
Lidiya Deikun

Melania Shirinkina, widow

Iosif Tolchanov
Iosif Tolchanov

Semizhilov, vendor

Olga Zhizneva
Olga Zhizneva

Unknown young lady

Serafima Birman
Serafima Birman

Shirinkina's neighbour

Yeva Milyutina
Yeva Milyutina

Shirinkina's neighbour

Anatoli Ktorov
Anatoli Ktorov

Anatoliy, city scamp

Vladimir Uralskiy
Vladimir Uralskiy

Union man (uncredited)

Naum Rogozhin
Naum Rogozhin

Guest (uncredited)

Nikolai Akimov
Nikolai Akimov

(uncredited)

Crew


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Status

Released

Original Language

RU

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