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Jolly Fellows

1934·Directed by Grigori Aleksandrov

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Released
December 9, 1934
Runtime
1h 36m

About Jolly Fellows

  • Music
  • Comedy

Synopsis

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
Writers
  • Vladimir Mass
  • Nikolay Erdman
  • Grigori Aleksandrov
  • Vasilii Lebedev-Kumach
Original title
Весёлые ребята

Principal cast

In billing order
  • Leonid UtyosovKostya Potekhin
  • Lyubov OrlovaAnyuta, the housemaid
  • Mariya StrelkovaYelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union
  • Fyodor KurikhinMortician
  • Emmanuil GellerMusic-hall audience member (uncredited)
  • Yelena TyapkinaAnyuta's stepmother
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