Jolly Fellows

Dec 9, 1934

1h 36m

★ 6.2

Overview

Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odessa and Moscow in the 1930s. Shepherd Kostya Potekhin (Utyosov) is mistaken for an international concert star. He falls in love with Anyuta (Orlova) and plays the "star" for her. In a cascade of comic musical numbers he becomes the leader of a Jazz-Band and gives a hilarious show at the Odessa Music Hall. Now he is destined to perform at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

Genres

Music

Comedy

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Cast

Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)

Leonid Utyosov

Анюта, домашняя работница (Anyuta - the Housemaid)

Lyubov Orlova

Елена - дитя Торгсина |Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union

Mariya Strelkova

Факельщик (Mortician)

Fyodor Kurikhin

Зритель, нет в титрах (Music-hall audience member (uncredited))

Emmanuil Geller

Мачеха Анюты (Anyuta's Stepmother)

Yelena Tyapkina

Музыкант, зачинщик драки на репетиции

Niki Otto

Дирижер из Парагвая (Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay)

Arnold Arnold

Учитель музыки (German music teacher)

Robert Erdman

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