The Tailor from Torzhok (1925) movie

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.

The Tailor from Torzhok (1925) movie

Genre: Comedy, Silent film
Production Co: Mezhrabpom-Rus

Directed by Yakov Protazanov
Writing Credits: Valentin Turkin
Cinematography by Pyotr Yermolov
Art Direction by Vladimir Yegorov

Cast:
Igor Ilyinsky as Petya Petelkin, a tailor
Olga Zhizneva as Young Lady
Anatoli Ktorov as Anatoli, young lady's fiancee
Vera Maretskaya as Katya
Lidiya Deikun as Widow Melania Ivanovna Shirinkina
Iosif Tolchanov as V. I. Semizhilov
Serafima Birman as Neighbor
Yeva Milyutina
Vladimir Uralsky as Union man