Film
The Tailor from Torzhok
1925Directed by Yakov Protazanov
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- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 5m
About The Tailor from Torzhok
- Comedy
Synopsis
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.
- Director
- Yakov Protazanov
- Writer
- Valentin Turkin
- Original title
- Закройщик из Торжка
