Jolly Fellows

Jolly Fellows

Release date : December 9, 1934
Runtime : 1h 36m
Countries of origin : Soviet Union /
Original Language : Russian /
Director : Grigori Aleksandrov /
Production companies : Moscow kinokombinat /
December 9, 1934 1h 36m Soviet Union Music Russian More
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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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Leonid Utyosov
Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)
Lyubov Orlova
Анюта, домашняя работница (Anyuta - the Housemaid)
Mariya Strelkova
Елена - дитя Торгсина |Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union
Fyodor Kurikhin
Факельщик (Mortician)
Emmanuil Geller
Зритель, нет в титрах (Music-hall audience member (uncredited))
Yelena Tyapkina
Мачеха Анюты (Anyuta's Stepmother)
Niki Otto
Музыкант, зачинщик драки на репетиции
Arnold Arnold
Дирижер из Парагвая (Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay)
Robert Erdman
Учитель музыки (German music teacher)

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  • title:Jolly Fellows
  • status:Released
  • Release date: 1934
  • Runtime:1h 36m
  • Genres: Music · Comedy ·
  • Countries of origin: Soviet Union ·
  • Original Language: Russian ·
  • Director: Grigori Aleksandrov /
  • Writers: Grigori Aleksandrov · Vladimir Mass · Nikolay Erdman ·
  • Production companies: Moscow kinokombinat ·
  • 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.
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