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.
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
- Serafima Birman as Shirinkina's neighbour
- Yeva Milyutina as Shirinkina's neighbour
- Anatoli Ktorov as Anatoliy, city scamp
- Vladimir Uralskiy as Union man (uncredited)
- Naum Rogozhin as Guest (uncredited)