poster

Jolly Fellows

Music | Comedy

6.2

Release Date

December 9, 1934

Duration

96 min

Status

Released

Language

ru

Overview

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.

Casts

Leonid Utyosov

Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)

Leonid Utyosov

Любовь Орлова

Анюта, домашняя работница (Anyuta - the Housemaid)

Любовь Орлова

Mariya Strelkova

Елена - дитя Торгсина |Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union

Mariya Strelkova

Fyodor Kurikhin

Факельщик (Mortician)

Fyodor Kurikhin

Эммануил Геллер

Зритель, нет в титрах (Music-hall audience member (uncredited))

Эммануил Геллер

Елена Тяпкина

Мачеха Анюты (Anyuta's Stepmother)

Елена Тяпкина

Niki Otto

Музыкант, зачинщик драки на репетиции

Niki Otto

Arnold Arnold

Дирижер из Парагвая (Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay)

Arnold Arnold

Robert Erdman

Учитель музыки (German music teacher)

Robert Erdman

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