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The Tailor from Torzhok

The Tailor from Torzhok

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 9, 1925

Runtime

1h 5m

Genres

Comedy

User Score

35%

Original Title

Закройщик из Торжка

Production Companies

Mezhrabpomfilm

Director

Yakov Protazanov

Description

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.