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.
Top Billed Cast
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))
Featured Crew
Grigori Aleksandrov
Director
Grigori Aleksandrov
Writer
Vladimir Mass
Writer
Nikolay Erdman
Writer
Esfir Tobak
Editor
Vladimir Nilsen
Director of Photography
Isaak Dunayevsky
Original Music Composer
Yevgeni Kashkevich
Sound Recordist
Aleksandr Gurevich
Production Manager
Isaak Markovich
Production Manager
Nikolai Timartsev
Sound Engineer
Leonid Voskalchuk
Sound Recordist
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