Jolly Fellows

Jolly Fellows

24/3/1935 1h 36m 6.2/10

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.

Director

Grigori Aleksandrov

Top Billed Cast

Emmanuil Geller

Emmanuil Geller

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

Lyubov Orlova

Lyubov Orlova

Анюта, домашняя работница (Anyuta - the Housemaid)

Mariya Strelkova

Mariya Strelkova

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

Yelena Tyapkina

Yelena Tyapkina

Мачеха Анюты (Anyuta's Stepmother)

Fyodor Kurikhin

Fyodor Kurikhin

Факельщик (Mortician)

Leonid Utyosov

Leonid Utyosov

Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)

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