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
Leonid Utyosovas Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)
Emmanuil Gelleras Зритель, нет в титрах (Music-hall audience member (uncredited))
Niki Ottoas Музыкант, зачинщик драки на репетиции
Lyubov Orlovaas Анюта, домашняя работница (Anyuta - the Housemaid)
Mariya Strelkovaas Елена - дитя Торгсина |Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union
Fyodor Kurikhinas Факельщик (Mortician)
Yelena Tyapkinaas Мачеха Анюты (Anyuta's Stepmother)
Arnold Arnoldas Дирижер из Парагвая (Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay)
Robert Erdmanas Учитель музыки (German music teacher)
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