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Jolly Fellows

64 %|Dec 9, 1934|Music, Comedy

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.

Featured Crew

Grigori Aleksandrov
Director
Vladimir Mass
Writer
Nikolay Erdman
Writer
Grigori Aleksandrov
Writer
Isaak Dunayevsky
Original Music Composer
Vladimir Nilsen
Director of Photography
Esfir Tobak
Editor
Igor Lopatonok
Producer

Cast

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Leonid Utyosov
Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)
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Lyubov Orlova
Анюта, домашняя работница (Anyuta - the Housemaid)
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Mariya Strelkova
Елена - дитя Торгсина |Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union
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Fyodor Kurikhin
Факельщик (Mortician)
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Emmanuil Geller
Зритель, нет в титрах (Music-hall audience member (uncredited))
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Yelena Tyapkina
Мачеха Анюты (Anyuta's Stepmother)
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Niki Otto
Музыкант, зачинщик драки на репетиции
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Arnold Arnold
Дирижер из Парагвая (Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay)
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Robert Erdman
Учитель музыки (German music teacher)