Jolly Fellows
09/12/1934
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.
Movie Information
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)
