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Jolly Fellows

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Calorie Rating: 135
Released: 1934-12-09
Running Time: 96 Minutes


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.

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Cast

Leonid Utyosov
Character: Kostya Potekhin
Lyubov Orlova
Character: Anyuta, the housemaid
Mariya Strelkova
Character: Yelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union

Fyodor Kurikhin
Character: Mortician
Emmanuil Geller
Character: Music-hall audience member (uncredited)
Yelena Tyapkina
Character: Anyuta's stepmother

Niki Otto
Character: Musician, fight instigator
Arnold Arnold
Character: Fraschini, the conductor from Paraguay
Robert Erdman
Character: German music teacher


Production and Crew


Vladimir Nilsen
Director of Photography
Isaak Dunayevsky
Original Music Composer

Aleksei Utkin
Production Design

Nikolai Timartsev
Sound Recordist
Isaak Zayonts
Executive Producer