Film
Jolly Fellows
1934 · 1h 36m · Music · Comedy
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Overview
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.
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Cast
Leonid Utyosov
Kostya Potekhin
Lyubov Orlova
Anyuta, the housemaid
Mariya Strelkova
Yelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union
Fyodor Kurikhin
Mortician
Emmanuil Geller
Music-hall audience member (uncredited)
Yelena Tyapkina
Anyuta's stepmother
Niki Otto
Musician, fight instigator
Arnold Arnold
Fraschini, the conductor from Paraguay
Robert Erdman
German music teacher
Crew
- Grigori AleksandrovDirector · Writer
- Vladimir MassWriter
- Nikolay ErdmanWriter
- Isaak ZayontsExecutive Producer
- Vladimir NilsenDirector of Photography
- Isaak DunayevskyOriginal Music Composer
- Esfir TobakEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- December 9, 1934
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Russian
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Rated
- 15
- Genres
- Music, Comedy
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