Jolly Fellows (1934)
December 9, 1934
Music, Comedy
1h 36m
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.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Grigori Aleksandrov
- 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
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Keywords
- mistaken identity
- love