The Tailor from Torzhok
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.
Release date
09/04/1925
Votes
6
Popularity
0.7
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
Vladimir Uralskiy
Union man (uncredited)
Naum Rogozhin
Guest (uncredited)
Nikolai Akimov
(uncredited)
Original Soundtrack
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SportLotto - 82
Peluca
Go Go Tales
Metalheads: The Good, the Bad, and the Evil
Gratuity
Antoine & Antoinette
The Ticket
The Lost Lotteries
It Could Happen to You
Uptown Saturday Night
Corazonada
Masz ci los!
Abuela's Luck
A Million Ways to Return Home
Blonde Fever
Le Franc
Fortune Flies
The Christmas Lottery
Rena... Here's the Opportunity
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