Jolly Fellows (1934)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 1934-12-09
Runtime: 96 minutes
Director: Grigori Aleksandrov
Top Cast
- Leonid Utyosov as Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)
- Lyubov Orlova as Анюта, домашняя работница (Anyuta - the Housemaid)
- Mariya Strelkova as Елена - дитя Торгсина |Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union
- Fyodor Kurikhin as Факельщик (Mortician)
- Emmanuil Geller as Зритель, нет в титрах (Music-hall audience member (uncredited))
- Yelena Tyapkina as Мачеха Анюты (Anyuta's Stepmother)
- Niki Otto as Музыкант, зачинщик драки на репетиции
- Arnold Arnold as Дирижер из Парагвая (Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay)
- Robert Erdman as Учитель музыки (German music teacher)
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