The Tailor from Torzhok

A 1925 Soviet comedy sponsored by the Soviet Finance Ministry with a plot promoting the new economy A smalltown 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 hardworking 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