The Tailor from Torzhok

The Tailor from Torzhok

65 mins | Comedy | April 9, 1925

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.

The Tailor from Torzhok

65 mins | Comedy | April 9, 1925

The Tailor from Torzhok
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.
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers Mezhrabpomfilm
Original title Закройщик из Торжка
Directors Yakov Protazanov
Writers Valentin Turkin

Cast

Igor Ilyinsky

as Petya Petelkin - Tailor

Olga Zhiznyeva

as Young Lady

Anatoli Ktorov

as Anatoli - Young Lady's Fiancee

Vera Maretskaya

as Katya

Lidiya Deikun

as Widow Melania Ivanovna Shirinki

Iosif Tolchanov

as V. I. Semizhilov

Serafima Birman

as Neighbor

Vladimir Uralsky

as Union Man