- Comedy
- 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.
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Cast
- 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)
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- Yakov ProtazanovDirector
- Valentin TurkinWriter
- Pyotr YermolovDirector of Photography
- Moisey AleynikovProducer
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