Released:
1925-04-09

Overview:
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.

Director:
Yakov Protazanov

Runtime:
1h 5min

Genre:
Comedy

• Cast:
• 
  Igor Ilyinsky
  as
  Petya Petelkin, tailor
• 
  Vera Maretskaya
  as
  Katya, housemaid
• 
  Lidiya Deikun
  as
  Melania Shirinkina, widow
• 
  Iosif Tolchanov
  as
  Semizhilov, vendor
• 
  Olga Zhizneva
  as
  Unknown young lady