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The Tailor from Torzhok

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Calorie Rating: 91
Released: 1925-04-09
Running Time: 65 Minutes
Studios: Mezhrabpomfilm,


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.

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Cast

Igor Ilyinsky
Character: Petya Petelkin, tailor
Vera Maretskaya
Character: Katya, housemaid
Lidiya Deikun
Character: Melania Shirinkina, widow

Iosif Tolchanov
Character: Semizhilov, vendor
Olga Zhizneva
Character: Unknown young lady
Serafima Birman
Character: Shirinkina's neighbour

Yeva Milyutina
Character: Shirinkina's neighbour
Anatoli Ktorov
Character: Anatoliy, city scamp
Vladimir Uralskiy
Character: Union man (uncredited)

Naum Rogozhin
Character: Guest (uncredited)
Nikolai Akimov
Character: (uncredited)


Production and Crew

Pyotr Yermolov
Director of Photography
Vladimir Egorov
Production Design