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Jolly Fellows

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Calorie Rating: 135
Released: 1934-12-09
Running Time: 96 Minutes
Studios: Moscow kinokombinat,


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: Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)
Lyubov Orlova
Character: Анюта, домашняя работница (Anyuta - the Housemaid)
Mariya Strelkova
Character: Елена - дитя Торгсина |Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union

Fyodor Kurikhin
Character: Факельщик (Mortician)
Emmanuil Geller
Character: Зритель, нет в титрах (Music-hall audience member (uncredited))
Yelena Tyapkina
Character: Мачеха Анюты (Anyuta's Stepmother)

Niki Otto
Character: Музыкант, зачинщик драки на репетиции
Arnold Arnold
Character: Дирижер из Парагвая (Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay)
Robert Erdman
Character: Учитель музыки (German music teacher)


Production and Crew


Isaak Dunayevsky
Original Music Composer
Vladimir Nilsen
Director of Photography

Leonid Voskalchuk
Sound Recordist
Yevgeni Kashkevich
Sound Recordist

Nikolai Timartsev
Sound Engineer
Vera Nikolskaya
Supervising Editor
Aleksandr Gurevich
Production Manager

Isaak Markovich
Production Manager
Arseniy Lapisov
Music Editor

Aleksei Utkin
Production Design