Jolly Fellows

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. 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

Leonid Utyosov

as Kostya Potekhin

Lyubov Orlova

Lyubov Orlova

as Anyuta, the housemaid

Mariya Strelkova

Mariya Strelkova

as Yelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union

Fyodor Kurikhin

Fyodor Kurikhin

as Mortician

Emmanuil Geller

Emmanuil Geller

as Music-hall audience member (uncredited)

Yelena Tyapkina

Yelena Tyapkina

as Anyuta's stepmother

Niki Otto

Niki Otto

as Musician, fight instigator

Arnold Arnold

Arnold Arnold

as Fraschini, the conductor from Paraguay

Robert Erdman

Robert Erdman

as German music teacher

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