Man from the Restaurant

d. Yakov Protazanov
c. USSR
y. 1927

description:
"The movie action starts very close before February democratic revolution in Russia in 1917. Fate is cruel to waiter of capital city restaurant Skorohodov: his son dies on front, his wife perishes from grief, his daughter is excluded from grammar school because of lack of money to pay tuition. Skorohodov decides to rent one of rooms in his poor apartment to a decent young man named Sokolin who is working as a courier in war industry committee. The lodger and a girl fall in love with each other and soon decide to get married. In meantime the father appoints his daughter as a violiinist in restaurant orchestra. But rich factory owner Karasev rudely molests young blonde violinist and through blackmail expects to make her his mistress."

IMDB... 8.3 (10)
_AMG... 2.5 / 5.0

size: 700MB
qlty: TV
subs: yes

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The Tailer from Torzhok

d. Yakov Protazanov
c. USSR
y. 1925

description:
"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." (IMDB)

IMDB... 7.0 (17)
_AMG... 3.0 / 5.0

size: 700MB
qlty: DVD
subs: no

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