Queye TV Jolly Fellows
Music
Comedy
Jolly Fellows
Весёлые ребята
1934
1:36
★ 6.4
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.

Cast

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

Crew

Grigori Aleksandrov

Director

Grigori Aleksandrov

Writer

Vladimir Mass

Writer

Nikolay Erdman

Writer

Esfir Tobak

Editor

Vladimir Nilsen

Director of Photography

Isaak Dunayevsky

Original Music Composer

Vadim Lyudvikovskiy

Conductor

Aleksei Utkin

Production Design

Vasilii Lebedev-Kumach

Lyricist

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