Jolly Fellows

Jolly Fellows (1934)

Released: 1934-12-09 Duration: 1hr 36min
Genres: Music Comedy
Rating 6.4

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.

Production Companies

Moscow kinokombinat

Additional Info

Budget $0.00
Revenue $0.00
Original Language ru
Popularity 0.683

Directed By

Grigori Aleksandrov

Crew

Original Music Composer
Isaak Dunayevsky
Director of Photography
Vladimir Nilsen
Editor
Esfir Tobak
Producer
Igor Lopatonok
Sound Recordist
Leonid Voskalchuk
Sound Recordist
Yevgeni Kashkevich
Sound Engineer
Nikolai Timartsev
Supervising Editor
Vera Nikolskaya
Production Manager
Aleksandr Gurevich
Production Manager
Isaak Markovich
Music Editor
Arseniy Lapisov
Production Design
Aleksei Utkin

TOP CAST

Leonid Utyosov
Leonid Utyosov

Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)

Lyubov Orlova
Lyubov Orlova

Анюта, домашняя работница (Anyuta - the Housemaid)

Mariya Strelkova
Mariya Strelkova

Елена - дитя Торгсина |Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union

Fyodor Kurikhin
Fyodor Kurikhin

Факельщик (Mortician)

Emmanuil Geller
Emmanuil Geller

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

Yelena Tyapkina
Yelena Tyapkina

Мачеха Анюты (Anyuta's Stepmother)

Niki Otto
Niki Otto

Музыкант, зачинщик драки на репетиции

Arnold Arnold
Arnold Arnold

Дирижер из Парагвая (Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay)

Robert Erdman
Robert Erdman

Учитель музыки (German music teacher)

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