Jolly Fellows
IMDB:
6.2
Released
12/9/1934
Duration
1h 36m
Genre
Music, Comedy
Country
Soviet Union
Cast
Leonid Utyosov, Lyubov Orlova, Mariya Strelkova
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.
Jolly Fellows
IMDB:
6.2Released
12/9/1934
Genre
Music, Comedy
Cast
Leonid Utyosov, Lyubov Orlova, Mariya Strelkova
Duration
1h 36m
Country
Soviet Union
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.
Cast
Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)
Leonid Utyosov
Анюта, домашняя работница (Anyuta - the Housemaid)
Lyubov Orlova
Елена - дитя Торгсина |Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union
Mariya Strelkova
Факельщик (Mortician)
Fyodor Kurikhin
Зритель, нет в титрах (Music-hall audience member (uncredited))
Emmanuil Geller
Мачеха Анюты (Anyuta's Stepmother)
Yelena Tyapkina
Музыкант, зачинщик драки на репетиции
Niki Otto
Дирижер из Парагвая (Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay)
Arnold Arnold
Учитель музыки (German music teacher)
