Movie: Jolly Fellows

Music
Comedy

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.

Release Date: 1934-12-09

Rating: 6.2

Casts


Leonid Utyosov

Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)

Любовь Орлова

Анюта, домашняя работница (Anyuta - the Housemaid)

Mariya Strelkova

Елена - дитя Торгсина |Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union

Фёдор Курихин

Факельщик (Mortician)

Эммануил Геллер

Зритель, нет в титрах (Music-hall audience member (uncredited))

Елена Тяпкина

Мачеха Анюты (Anyuta's Stepmother)