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Jolly Fellows

1934696 min
ComedyMusic
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
Actors
Leonid UtyosovLeonid UtyosovKostya PotekhinLyubov OrlovaLyubov OrlovaAnyuta, the housemaidMariya StrelkovaMariya StrelkovaYelena, child of the Foreign Trade UnionFyodor KurikhinFyodor KurikhinMorticianEmmanuil GellerEmmanuil GellerMusic-hall audience member (uncredited)Yelena TyapkinaYelena TyapkinaAnyuta's stepmotherNiki OttoNiki OttoMusician, fight instigatorArnold ArnoldArnold ArnoldFraschini, the conductor from ParaguayRobert ErdmanGerman music teacher
Released
Dec 09, 1934
Country
Soviet Union

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