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Jolly Fellows
Jolly Fellows

Jolly Fellows

MusicComedy
December 9, 19341h 36m6.4 / 10
Overview

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.

Director
Grigori Aleksandrov
Grigori Aleksandrov
Cast
Leonid Utyosov
Leonid UtyosovKostya Potekhin
Lyubov Orlova
Lyubov OrlovaAnyuta, the housemaid
Mariya Strelkova
Mariya StrelkovaYelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union
Fyodor Kurikhin
Fyodor KurikhinMortician
Emmanuil Geller
Emmanuil GellerMusic-hall audience member (uncredited)
Yelena Tyapkina
Yelena TyapkinaAnyuta's stepmother
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