Jolly Fellows

Jolly Fellows

1934
1h 36m
6.2

6.2/10

19 votes • View on IMDb
Music Comedy
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.

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Production Information

Production Countries
Soviet Union
Spoken Languages
Russian

Keywords

mistaken identity love

Quick Facts

Original Title Весёлые ребята
Release Date December 9, 1934
Status Released
Language RU
IMDb ID tt0025946

Cast

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
Robert Erdman

German music teacher

Key Crew

Grigori Aleksandrov
Director
Vladimir Mass
Writer
Grigori Aleksandrov
Writer
Nikolay Erdman
Writer
Isaak Zayonts
Executive Producer