Jolly Fellows

1h 36m

6.2

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.

Cast

Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)

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)

Музыкант, зачинщик драки на репетиции

Дирижер из Парагвая (Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay)

Учитель музыки (German music teacher)

Crew

Grigori Aleksandrov

Director, Writer

Vladimir Nilsen

Director of Photography

Executive Producer

Production Design

Nikolai Timartsev

Sound Recordist

Isaak Dunayevsky

Original Music Composer

Vasilii Lebedev-Kumach

Vadim Lyudvikovskiy