Jolly Fellows
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.
Directed by Grigori Aleksandrov · Written by Vladimir Mass
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Cast
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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
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Jolly Fellows
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