The Tailor from Torzhok
Movie| Title | Закройщик из Торжка |
| User score | 3.5 |
| Release date | Apr 9, 1925 |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Director | Yakov Protazanov |
| Production country | Soviet Union |
| Production companies | Mezhrabpomfilm |
| Run time | 65 min. |
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.
