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
Petya Petelkin, tailor
Vera Maretskaya
Katya, housemaid
Lidiya Deikun
Melania Shirinkina, widow
Iosif Tolchanov
Semizhilov, vendor
Olga Zhizneva
Unknown young lady
Serafima Birman
Shirinkina's neighbour
Yeva Milyutina
Shirinkina's neighbour
Anatoli Ktorov
Anatoliy, city scamp
Vladimir Uralskiy
Union man (uncredited)
Naum Rogozhin
Guest (uncredited)
Nikolai Akimov
(uncredited)
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