Jolly Fellows (1934)
Весёлые ребята
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.
- Date of release
- 1934-12-09
- TMDB
- 6.4 / 10 (22)
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Genres
- Music, Comedy
- Director
- Grigori Aleksandrov
Casting
- 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
Interesting facts
Jolly Fellows, also translated as Happy-Go-Lucky Guys, Moscow Laughs and Jazz Comedy, is a 1934 Soviet musical film, directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and starring his wife Lyubov Orlova, a gifted singer and the first recognized star of Soviet cinema.
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