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Jolly Fellows
1934 6.4 (18 votes) 1h 36m
Genres
Music Comedy
Production Companies
Moscow kinokombinat

Jolly Fellows (Весёлые ребята)

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Director: Grigori Aleksandrov

Writer: Vladimir Mass, Grigori Aleksandrov, Nikolay Erdman

Director of Photography: Vladimir Nilsen

Producer: Igor Lopatonok

Top Cast

Leonid Utyosov
Leonid Utyosov

Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)

Lyubov Orlova
Lyubov Orlova

Анюта, домашняя работница (Anyuta - the Housemaid)

Mariya Strelkova
Mariya Strelkova

Елена - дитя Торгсина |Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union

Fyodor Kurikhin
Fyodor Kurikhin

Факельщик (Mortician)

Emmanuil Geller
Emmanuil Geller

Зритель, нет в титрах (Music-hall audience member (uncredited))

Yelena Tyapkina
Yelena Tyapkina

Мачеха Анюты (Anyuta's Stepmother)

Niki Otto
Niki Otto

Музыкант, зачинщик драки на репетиции

Arnold Arnold
Arnold Arnold

Дирижер из Парагвая (Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay)

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