![The Tailor from Torzhok](https://i3.wp.com/image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/iTUvzLPodm1MF05q6ryCYo8WwPK.jpg)
Plot
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.
Writer | Valentin Turkin |
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Director | Yakov Protazanov |
Actor | Igor Ilyinsky, Olga Zhiznyeva, Anatoli Ktorov |
Country | Soviet Union |
Production | Mezhrabpomfilm |