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The Tailor from Torzhok
Comedy · 1925

The Tailor from Torzhok

4.2 11 cast 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.

Cast 11

Serafima Birman
Serafima Birman
Shirinkina's neighbour
Igor Ilyinsky
Igor Ilyinsky
Petya Petelkin, tailor
Yeva Milyutina
Yeva Milyutina
Shirinkina's neighbour
Olga Zhizneva
Olga Zhizneva
Unknown young lady
Nikolai Akimov
Nikolai Akimov
(uncredited)
Naum Rogozhin
Naum Rogozhin
Guest (uncredited)
Vera Maretskaya
Vera Maretskaya
Katya, housemaid

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