The Tailor from Torzhok

Name: The Tailor from Torzhok
Cast: Igor Ilyinsky, Vera Maretskaya, Lidiya Deikun, Iosif Tolchanov, Olga Zhizneva

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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 & Crew

Director: Yakov ProtazanovWriter: Valentin TurkinProducer: Moisey Aleynikov

Igor Ilyinsky

as Petya Petelkin, tailor

Vera Maretskaya

as Katya, housemaid

Lidiya Deikun

as Melania Shirinkina, widow

Iosif Tolchanov

as Semizhilov, vendor

Olga Zhizneva

as Unknown young lady

Serafima Birman

as Shirinkina's neighbour

Yeva Milyutina

as Shirinkina's neighbour

Anatoli Ktorov

as Anatoliy, city scamp

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