The Tailor from Torzhok
Comedy
Lenguage:65 min
Duration:ru
Release date:Apr 9, 1925
Calificacion:3.5
Description:
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 IlyinskyPetya Petelkin, tailor
Vera MaretskayaKatya, housemaid
Lidiya DeikunMelania Shirinkina, widow
Iosif TolchanovSemizhilov, vendor
Olga ZhiznevaUnknown young lady
Serafima BirmanShirinkina's neighbour
Yeva MilyutinaShirinkina's neighbour
Anatoli KtorovAnatoliy, city scamp
Vladimir UralskiyUnion man (uncredited)
Naum RogozhinGuest (uncredited)