Jolly Fellows

Jolly Fellows

96 mins | Comedy, Music | Dec. 9, 1934

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.

Jolly Fellows

96 mins | Comedy, Music | Dec. 9, 1934

Jolly Fellows
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.
IMDb rating 6.9
Producers Moscow kinokombinat
Original title Весёлые ребята
Directors Grigori Aleksandrov
Writers Vladimir Mass, Nikolay Erdman, Grigori Aleksandrov

Cast

Leonid Utyosov

as Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)

Lyubov Orlova

as Анюта, домашняя работница (Anyuta - the Housemaid)

Mariya Strelkova

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

Fyodor Kurikhin

as Факельщик (Mortician)

Emmanuil Geller

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

Yelena Tyapkina

as Мачеха Анюты (Anyuta's Stepmother)

Niki Otto

as Музыкант, зачинщик драки на репетиции

Arnold Arnold

as Дирижер из Парагвая (Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay)

Robert Erdman

as Учитель музыки (German music teacher)