The Tailor from Torzhok (1925)

favorite

watched

watchlist

Details

Original Title: Закройщик из Торжка

Release Date: April 09, 1925

Runtime: 65 minutes

Budget: $0.0

Revenue: $0.0

Overview

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.