MovieMusicComedy
Jolly Fellows
6.3(23)19341h 36m
Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odesa 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. 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.
- Director
- Grigori Aleksandrov
- Created by
- Isaak Zayonts
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Cast
Leonid Utyosov
Kostya Potekhin
Lyubov Orlova
Anyuta, the housemaid
Mariya Strelkova
Yelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union
Fyodor Kurikhin
Mortician
Emmanuil Geller
Music-hall audience member (uncredited)
Yelena Tyapkina
Anyuta's stepmother
Niki Otto
Musician, fight instigator
Arnold Arnold
Fraschini, the conductor from Paraguay
Robert Erdman
German music teacher
Crew
Directing
- Grigori AleksandrovDirector
Writing
- Grigori AleksandrovWriter
- Vladimir MassWriter
- Nikolay ErdmanWriter
- Vasilii Lebedev-KumachLyricist
Production
- Isaak ZayontsExecutive Producer
Camera
- Vladimir NilsenDirector of Photography
Editing
- Esfir TobakEditor
Sound
- Isaak DunayevskyOriginal Music Composer
- Vadim LyudvikovskiyConductor
- Nikolai TimartsevSound Recordist
Art
- Aleksei UtkinProduction Design