Jolly Fellows
1934 · 96 min
Music · Comedy
★ 6.4Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odessa and Moscow in the 1930s. Shepherd Kostya Potekhin is mistaken for an international concert star. He falls in love with Anyuta 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.
Crew
- Director Grigori Aleksandrov
- Writer Vladimir Mass
- Writer Nikolay Erdman
- Writer Grigori Aleksandrov
- Director of Photography Vladimir Nilsen
Cast
Leonid Utyosov
Kostya Potekhin
Lyubov Orlova
Anyuta, the housemaid
Mariya Strelkova
Yelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union
Fyodor Kurikhin
Mortician
Emmanuil Geller
Music-hall audience member (uncredited)
Yelena Tyapkina
Anyuta's stepmother
Niki Otto
Musician, fight instigator
Arnold Arnold
Fraschini, the conductor from Paraguay
- R
Robert Erdman
German music teacher
Crew
- Director — Grigori Aleksandrov
- Writer — Vladimir Mass
- Writer — Nikolay Erdman
- Writer — Grigori Aleksandrov
- Director of Photography — Vladimir Nilsen
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