Jolly Fellows (1934)

6.4 December 9, 1934 1h 36m Released
MusicComedy

Merry 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.

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Cast

  • Leonid Utyosov

    Leonid Utyosov

    Kostya Potekhin

  • Lyubov Orlova

    Lyubov Orlova

    Anyuta, the housemaid

  • Mariya Strelkova

    Mariya Strelkova

    Yelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union

  • Fyodor Kurikhin

    Fyodor Kurikhin

    Mortician

  • Emmanuil Geller

    Emmanuil Geller

    Music-hall audience member (uncredited)

  • Yelena Tyapkina

    Yelena Tyapkina

    Anyuta's stepmother

  • Niki Otto

    Niki Otto

    Musician, fight instigator

  • Arnold Arnold

    Arnold Arnold

    Fraschini, the conductor from Paraguay

  • Robert Erdman

    Robert Erdman

    German music teacher

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