CinemaOSMovie · 1934 · 1h 36m

Jolly Fellows

64%(22)IMDbMusicComedy

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.

Directed byGrigori Aleksandrov

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 36m
Language
RU
Released
December 9, 1934

Featuring

Cast & crew

9 credited
Starring
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

German music teacher

Creative team
Directed by
Grigori Aleksandrov
Grigori Aleksandrov
Written by
Grigori Aleksandrov
Grigori Aleksandrov
Vladimir Mass
Vladimir Mass

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