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Director
  
Production
  
Gorky Film Studio

Duration
  

Country
  
Soviet Union

7/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy

Writer
  
Valentin Turkin

The Tailor from Torzhok movie poster

Language
  
Silent film (Russian intertitles)

Release date
  
1925

Genres
  
Silent film, Black-and-white

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The tailor from torzhok 1925 movie


The Tailor from Torzhok (Russian: Закройщик из Торжка, Zakroyshchik iz Torzhka) is a 1925 Soviet silent comedy film directed by Yakov Protazanov and starring Igor Ilyinsky. The picture was commissioned as publicity for the State Lottery Loan.

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Plot

The film takes place in Soviet Russia during the NEP in a small provincial town. Petya Petelkin is a humble tailor of a sewing workshop belonging to the widow Shirinkina. The widow decides to marry her employee and Petya buys a lottery ticket hoping to win so that he can present her with a fancy gift.

He wins the big prize, starts dreaming of having his own shop, but the winning ticket disappears and passes from hand to hand. This is the beginning of a series of comic adventures. Petya is on the verge of committing suicide, but eventually everything ends well.

Cast

  • Igor Ilyinsky - Petya Petelkin
  • Olga Zhiznyeva - Young Lady
  • Anatoli Ktorov - Young Man
  • Vera Maretskaya - Katya
  • Lidiya Deikun - Widow Shirinkina
  • Iosif Tolchanov
  • Serafima Birman - Neighbor
  • Eva Milyutina
  • Vladimir Uralsky - Labour Union official
  • References

    The Tailor from Torzhok Wikipedia
    The Tailor from Torzhok IMDb The Tailor from Torzhok themoviedb.org


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