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Jolly Fellows

Весёлые ребята

Release: 1934-12-09·Runtime: 96m·★ 6.2
MusicComedy

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.

Production Countries

Soviet Union

Cast

Yelena TyapkinaYelena Tyapkinaas Anyuta's stepmotherNiki OttoNiki Ottoas Musician, fight instigatorRobert ErdmanRobert Erdmanas German music teacherLyubov OrlovaLyubov Orlovaas Anyuta, the housemaidMariya StrelkovaMariya Strelkovaas Yelena, child of the Foreign Trade UnionEmmanuil GellerEmmanuil Gelleras Music-hall audience member (uncredited)Arnold ArnoldArnold Arnoldas Fraschini, the conductor from ParaguayLeonid UtyosovLeonid Utyosovas Kostya PotekhinFyodor KurikhinFyodor Kurikhinas Mortician

Crew

Vladimir Mass" />Vladimir MassWriterNikolay Erdman" />Nikolay ErdmanWriterGrigori Aleksandrov" />Grigori AleksandrovDirector, WriterEsfir Tobak" />Esfir TobakEditorVladimir Nilsen" />Vladimir NilsenDirector of PhotographyIsaak Dunayevsky" />Isaak DunayevskyOriginal Music ComposerVadim Lyudvikovskiy" />Vadim LyudvikovskiyConductorVasilii Lebedev-Kumach" />Vasilii Lebedev-KumachLyricist