Jolly Fellows (movie)

Jolly Fellows (movie)

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  • User score: 6.4
  • Production country: Soviet Union
  • Producer: Grigori Aleksandrov
  • Production companies: Moscow kinokombinat
  • Genre: Music, Comedy
  • Release date: 12/9/1934
  • Run time: 96 min.

Movie 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.

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Leonid Utyosov

Leonid Utyosov

Role(s): Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)

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Lyubov Orlova

Lyubov Orlova

Role(s): Анюта, домашняя работница (Anyuta - the Housemaid)

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Mariya Strelkova

Mariya Strelkova

Role(s): Елена - дитя Торгсина |Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union

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Fyodor Kurikhin

Fyodor Kurikhin

Role(s): Факельщик (Mortician)

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Emmanuil Geller

Emmanuil Geller

Role(s): Зритель, нет в титрах (Music-hall audience member (uncredited))

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