Jolly Fellows (1934)
1934 · 1h 36m · Music, Comedy
Genres: Music, Comedy
Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odessa and Moscow in the 1930s. Shepherd Kostya Potekhin is mistaken for an international concert star. He falls in love with Anyuta and plays the "star" for her.
Director: Grigori Aleksandrov
Writers: Vladimir Mass, Grigori Aleksandrov, Nikolay Erdman
Music by: Isaak Dunayevsky
Cinematography: Vladimir Nilsen
Editor: Esfir Tobak
Cast
Leonid Utyosov as Kostya PotekhinLyubov Orlova as Anyuta, the housemaidMariya Strelkova as Yelena, child of the Foreign Trade UnionFyodor Kurikhin as MorticianEmmanuil Geller as Music-hall audience member (uncredited)Yelena Tyapkina as Anyuta's stepmotherNiki Otto as Musician, fight instigatorArnold Arnold as Fraschini, the conductor from ParaguayRobert Erdman as German music teacherMore like this
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