Jolly Fellows
1934 · TMDB 6.4 · Весёлые ребята
Directed by Grigori Aleksandrov
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.
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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 sh...
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- Runtime
- 96 min
- Released
- 1934-12-09
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Language
- Russian
- TMDB score
- 6.4
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Key contributors
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Grigori Aleksandrov
Director
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Vladimir Mass
Writer
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Nikolay Erdman
Writer
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Leonid Utyosov
Kostya Potekhin
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Lyubov Orlova
Anyuta, the housemaid
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Mariya Strelkova
Yelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union
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Fyodor Kurikhin
Mortician
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Emmanuil Geller
Music-hall audience member (uncredited)
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Yelena Tyapkina
Anyuta's stepmother
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Niki Otto
Musician, fight instigator
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Arnold Arnold
Fraschini, the conductor from Paraguay