Jolly Fellows
movie
Released December 09, 1934
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
Leonid Utyosov
as
Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)
Lyubov Orlova
as
Анюта, домашняя работница (Anyuta - the Housemaid)
Mariya Strelkova
as
Елена - дитя Торгсина |Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union
Fyodor Kurikhin
as
Факельщик (Mortician)
Emmanuil Geller
as
Зритель, нет в титрах (Music-hall audience member (uncredited))
Yelena Tyapkina
as
Мачеха Анюты (Anyuta's Stepmother)
Niki Otto
as
Музыкант, зачинщик драки на репетиции
Arnold Arnold
as
Дирижер из Парагвая (Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay)
Robert Erdman
as
Учитель музыки (German music teacher)
Crew
Grigori Aleksandrov
as
Director
Vladimir Mass
as
Writer
Grigori Aleksandrov
as
Writer
Nikolay Erdman
as
Writer
Vladimir Nilsen
as
Director of Photography
Esfir Tobak
as
Editor
Isaak Dunayevsky
as
Original Music Composer
Vadim Lyudvikovskiy
as
Conductor
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Aleksei Utkin
as
Production Design
Vasilii Lebedev-Kumach
as
Lyricist
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Nikolai Timartsev
as
Sound Recordist
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Isaak Zayonts
as
Executive Producer