Jolly Fellows (1934)
19341h 36mMusicComedy
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.
Cast
Leonid UtyosovKostya Potekhin
Lyubov OrlovaAnyuta, the housemaid
Mariya StrelkovaYelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union
Fyodor KurikhinMortician
Emmanuil GellerMusic-hall audience member (uncredited)
Yelena TyapkinaAnyuta's stepmother
Niki OttoMusician, fight instigator
Arnold ArnoldFraschini, the conductor from Paraguay- RRobert ErdmanGerman music teacher
Crew
- Director
- Grigori Aleksandrov
- Producers
- Isaak Zayonts
- Music
- Isaak Dunayevsky
- Cinematography
- Vladimir Nilsen
- Editing
- Esfir Tobak
Details
- Released
- December 9, 1934
- Language
- Russian
- IMDb
- tt0025946