Jolly Fellows
Original title: Весёлые ребята
NOTE
6.2/10
(19)
12/9/1934
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1h 36min
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Synopsis
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.
Direction: Grigori Alexandrov
Cast
Леонид Утёсов
Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)
Любовь Орлова
Анюта, домашняя работница (Anyuta - the Housemaid)
Мария Стрелкова
Елена - дитя Торгсина |Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union
Фёдор Курихин
Факельщик (Mortician)
Эммануил Геллер
Зритель, нет в титрах (Music-hall audience member (uncredited))
Елена Тяпкина
Мачеха Анюты (Anyuta's Stepmother)
Николай Отто
Музыкант, зачинщик драки на репетиции
Арнольд Арнольд
Дирижер из Парагвая (Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay)
Роберт Эрдман
Учитель музыки (German music teacher)
