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.

• Yakov ProtazanovDirector
• Valentin TurkinWriter

• Igor IlyinskyPetya Petelkin, tailor
• Vera MaretskayaKatya, housemaid
• Lidiya DeikunMelania Shirinkina, widow
• Iosif TolchanovSemizhilov, vendor
• Olga ZhiznevaUnknown young lady
• Serafima BirmanShirinkina's neighbour
• Yeva MilyutinaShirinkina's neighbour
• Anatoli KtorovAnatoliy, city scamp
• Vladimir UralskiyUnion man (uncredited)
• Naum RogozhinGuest (uncredited)
• Nikolai Akimov(uncredited)