Jolly Fellows 1934

Jolly Fellows

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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.

Top Billed 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)

Release Date 1934-12-09
Runtime 1h 36m
Directors Grigori Aleksandrov, Vladimir Nilsen
Producer Igor Lopatonok
Writers Grigori Aleksandrov, Vladimir Mass, Nikolay Erdman