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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 759

The Tailor from Torzhok

192565 minSoviet Union

Synopsis

A modest tailor buys a lottery ticket while considering a gift for the widow who employs him and hopes to marry him. Winning a large prize makes an independent workshop seem possible. Then the ticket disappears and changes hands, sending him through a series of misunderstandings as he tries to recover the piece of paper on which his plans depend.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian.
This copy runs: 58:40
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. No subtitle track in this language.

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No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Yakov Protazanov · Public domain

Cast

Igor Ilyinsky

DirectorsYakov Protazanov

Historical context

The comedy was commissioned to publicize the Soviet State Lottery Loan. Igor Ilyinsky's anxious tailor turns the promotional subject into a story of provincial work, romance and unstable good fortune.

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Igor Ilyinsky — Киностудия « Мосфильм »; http://www.rosculture.ru/movies_list/search/show/?id=5912 · Public domain

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