The Tailor from Torzhok (1925)
Закройщик из Торжка
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.
- Date of release
- 1925-04-09
- TMDB
- 4.2 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 1h 5m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Yakov Protazanov
Casting
- 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)
Interesting facts
The Tailor from Torzhok is a 1925 Soviet silent comedy film directed by Yakov Protazanov and starring Igor Ilyinsky. The picture was commissioned as publicity for the State Lottery Loan.
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