Jolly Fellows

Jolly Fellows (1934)

Music Comedy

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.

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  • Release Date: 1934-12-09
  • Runtime: 1h 36min
  • Production Country: Soviet Union
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Cast

  • Leonid Utyosov

    Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)

  • Lyubov Orlova

    Анюта, домашняя работница (Anyuta - the Housemaid)

  • Mariya Strelkova

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

  • Fyodor Kurikhin

    Факельщик (Mortician)

  • Emmanuil Geller

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

  • Yelena Tyapkina

    Мачеха Анюты (Anyuta's Stepmother)

  • Niki Otto

    Музыкант, зачинщик драки на репетиции

  • Arnold Arnold

    Дирижер из Парагвая (Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay)

  • Robert Erdman

    Учитель музыки (German music teacher)

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