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 Kostya Potekhin
Lyubov Orlova
as Anyuta, the housemaid
Mariya Strelkova
as Yelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union
Fyodor Kurikhin
as Mortician
Emmanuil Geller
as Music-hall audience member (uncredited)
Yelena Tyapkina
as Anyuta's stepmother
Niki Otto
as Musician, fight instigator
Arnold Arnold
as Fraschini, the conductor from Paraguay
Robert Erdman
as German music teacher
