Movie

Jolly Fellows

★ 6.4/10 · 22 votes 1934 1h 36m Released

MusicComedy

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.

Cast

Leonid Utyosov Kostya Potekhin Lyubov Orlova Anyuta, the housemaid Mariya Strelkova Yelena, child of the Forei Fyodor Kurikhin Mortician Emmanuil Geller Music-hall audience member Yelena Tyapkina Anyuta's stepmother