Movie·1934·1h 36m
Jolly Fellows
Country
Soviet Union
Language
Russian
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The Story
Original title: Весёлые ребята
Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odessa and Moscow in the 1930s. Shepherd Kostya Potekhin is mistaken for an international concert star. He falls in love with Anyuta 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.
Written By
Vladimir Mass, Nikolay Erdman
Producer
Isaak Zayonts
Cinematography
Vladimir Nilsen
Music
Isaak Dunayevsky
Editor
Esfir Tobak
Themes
Audience Score
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// cast
Cast
Leonid Utyosov
Kostya Potekhin
Lyubov Orlova
Anyuta, the housemaid
Mariya Strelkova
Yelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union
Fyodor Kurikhin
Mortician
Emmanuil Geller
Music-hall audience member (uncredited)
Yelena Tyapkina
Anyuta's stepmother
Niki Otto
Musician, fight instigator
Arnold Arnold
Fraschini, the conductor from Paraguay
Robert Erdman
German music teacher
// crew
Crew
Grigori Aleksandrov
Director, Writer
Vladimir Mass
Writer
Nikolay Erdman
Writer
Isaak Dunayevsky
Original Music Composer
Vladimir Nilsen
Director of Photography
Esfir Tobak
Editor
Isaak Zayonts
Executive Producer
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