Jolly Fellows

12/09/1934

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1hr 36min

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Music

,Comedy

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Leonid Utyosov
  • Lyubov Orlova
  • Mariya Strelkova
  • Fyodor Kurikhin
  • Emmanuil Geller

    Director

  • Grigori Aleksandrov

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

    Production Countries

  • Soviet Union

LANGUAGES

  • Russian