The Tailor from Torzhok

The Tailor from Torzhok — 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.

• Release date
• April 9, 1925
• Runtime
• 65 min
• Genres
• Comedy
• Director
• Yakov Protazanov

The Tailor from Torzhok — 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