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.
Jolly Fellows
December 9, 1934
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Cast (9)
Leonid Utyosov
Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)
Lyubov Orlova
Анюта, домашняя работница (Anyuta - the Housemaid)
Mariya Strelkova
Елена - дитя Торгсина |Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union
Fyodor Kurikhin
Факельщик (Mortician)
Emmanuil Geller
Зритель, нет в титрах (Music-hall audience member (uncredited))
Yelena Tyapkina
Мачеха Анюты (Anyuta's Stepmother)
Niki Otto
Музыкант, зачинщик драки на репетиции
Arnold Arnold
Дирижер из Парагвая (Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay)
Robert Erdman
Учитель музыки (German music teacher)
Crew (17)
Directing
Grigori Aleksandrov
Director
Writing
Production
Sound
Isaak Dunayevsky
Original Music Composer
Nikolai Timartsev
Sound Engineer
Leonid Voskalchuk
Sound Recordist
Vadim Lyudvikovskiy
Conductor
Arseniy Lapisov
Music Editor
Yevgeni Kashkevich
Sound Recordist
Art
Aleksei Utkin
Production Design
Camera
Vladimir Nilsen
Director of Photography
Costume & Make-Up
No data availableCrew
No data availableEditing
Vera Nikolskaya
Supervising Editor
Esfir Tobak
Editor