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Jolly Fellows (1934)

★ 6.2/10 96 min Music, Comedy Soviet Union Russian
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Description

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.

Top Cast

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

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