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Jolly Fellows(1934)
Status: Released
Date: 1934-12-09
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18 Votes
Time: 1h 36m
Overview:
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.
Languages: Russian.
Countries:
Soviet Union
ProductionCompanies:
Moscow kinokombinat
Movie: Jolly Fellows
Top 9 Billed Cast
Leonid Utyosov
Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)
Любовь Орлова
Анюта, домашняя работница (Anyuta - the Housemaid)
Mariya Strelkova
Елена - дитя Торгсина |Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union
Fyodor Kurikhin
Факельщик (Mortician)
Эммануил Геллер
Зритель, нет в титрах (Music-hall audience member (uncredited))
Елена Тяпкина
Мачеха Анюты (Anyuta's Stepmother)
Niki Otto
Музыкант, зачинщик драки на репетиции
Arnold Arnold
Дирижер из Парагвая (Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay)
Robert Erdman
Учитель музыки (German music teacher)
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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.
Release Date
1934-12-09
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