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Jolly Fellows

6.2/10 1934 4K 96 min
Music • Comedy

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.

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Jolly Fellows
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Leonid Utyosov
Leonid Utyosov
Kostya Potekhin
Lyubov Orlova
Lyubov Orlova
Anyuta, the housemaid
Mariya Strelkova
Mariya Strelkova
Yelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union
Fyodor Kurikhin
Fyodor Kurikhin
Mortician
Emmanuil Geller
Emmanuil Geller
Music-hall audience member (uncredited)
Yelena Tyapkina
Yelena Tyapkina
Anyuta's stepmother
Niki Otto
Niki Otto
Musician, fight instigator
Arnold Arnold
Arnold Arnold
Fraschini, the conductor from Paraguay
Robert Erdman
Robert Erdman
German music teacher

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