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The Tailor from Torzhok (1925)

The Tailor from Torzhok (1925)

Comedy
Release Date: 1925, April 9
Directors: Yakov Protazanov
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Mezhrabpomfilm
Cast: Vladimir Uralskiy, Igor Ilyinsky, Iosif Tolchanov, Anatoli Ktorov, Vera Maretskaya, Olga Zhizneva, Serafima Birman, Nikolai Akimov, Lidiya Deikun, Yeva Milyutina, Naum Rogozhin

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.

Keywords:

lottery ticket