Jolly Fellows (1934)
Vesyolye rebyata
96 min
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.
- Release date
- December 25, 1934
- Country of origin
- Russia
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Cast
- Leonid Utyosov as Kostya Potekhin
- Lyubov Orlova as Anyuta - the Housemaid
- Mariya Strelkova as Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union
- Fyodor Kurikhin as Mortician
- Emmanuil Geller as Music-hall audience member
- Elena Tyapkina as Yelena's mother
- Robert Erdman as German music teacher
- Arnold Arnold as Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay
- Marya Ivanovna
Crew
- Grigoriy Aleksandrov · Director
- Grigoriy Aleksandrov · Writer
- Nikolay Erdman · Writer
- Vladimir Mass · Writer
- Isaak Dunaevskiy · Composer
- Vladimir Nilsen · Cinematographer
- Vera Nikolskaya · Editor
- Esfir Tobak · Editor