The Tailor from Torzhok
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The Tailor from Torzhok is a 1925 Soviet
silent comedy
film directed by Yakov Protazanov
and starring Igor Ilyinsky
) buys a lottery ticket starting a chain of comic adventures.
Cinema of the Soviet Union
The cinema of the Soviet Union, not to be confused with "Cinema of Russia" despite Russian language films being predominant in both genres, includes several film contributions of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union reflecting elements of their pre-Soviet culture, language and history,...
silent comedy
Silent comedy
Silent comedy refers to a style of acting, related to but distinct from mime, invented to bring comedy into the medium of film in the silent film era before a sound track on film was technologically practicable...
film directed by Yakov Protazanov
Yakov Protazanov
Yakov Alexandrovich Protazanov was Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriter, and one of the founding fathers of cinema of Russia....
and starring Igor Ilyinsky
Igor Ilyinsky
Igor Vladimirovich Ilyinsky was a famous Russian actor and notable silent film comedian.-Early years:Igor Ilyinsky was born on 24 July 1901 in Moscow.At the age of 16 he entered the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre Studio and in half a year already debuted on the professional stage in Kommisarzhevskaya...
Plot
A small-town tailor Petya Petelkin (Igor IlyinskyIgor Ilyinsky
Igor Vladimirovich Ilyinsky was a famous Russian actor and notable silent film comedian.-Early years:Igor Ilyinsky was born on 24 July 1901 in Moscow.At the age of 16 he entered the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre Studio and in half a year already debuted on the professional stage in Kommisarzhevskaya...
) buys a lottery ticket starting a chain of comic adventures.
Cast
- Igor IlyinskyIgor IlyinskyIgor Vladimirovich Ilyinsky was a famous Russian actor and notable silent film comedian.-Early years:Igor Ilyinsky was born on 24 July 1901 in Moscow.At the age of 16 he entered the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre Studio and in half a year already debuted on the professional stage in Kommisarzhevskaya...
- Petya Petelkin - Olga ZhiznyevaOlga ZhiznyevaOlga Andryevna Zhiznyeva was a famous Russian actress.-Filmography:*Dostoyanie respubliki *Kremlyovskie kuranty *Tsvety zapozdalye as Knyaginya...
- Young Lady - Anatoli KtorovAnatoli KtorovAnatoli Petrovich Ktorov was a famous Russian film and stage actor.-Early years:...
- Young Man - Vera MaretskayaVera MaretskayaVera Petrovna Maretskaya was a Russian actress.-Early years:Vera Petrovna Maretskaya was born on July 31, 1906, in Barvikha, a suburb of Moscow. Young Maretskaya helped her father, named Petr Maretsky, who was a candy bar vendor at Moscow Circus...
- Katya - Lidiya Deikun - Widow Shirinkina
- Iosif Tolchanov
- Serafima Birman - Neighbor
- Eva Milyutina
- Vladimir Uralsky - Labour Union official