The Tailor from Torzhok
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.
- Year: 1925
- Country: Soviet Union
- Genre: Comedy
- Studio: Mezhrabpomfilm
- Keyword: lottery ticket
- Director: Yakov Protazanov
- Cast: Igor Ilyinsky, Olga Zhiznyeva, Anatoli Ktorov, Vera Maretskaya, Lidiya Deikun, Iosif Tolchanov