Jolly Fellows

Jolly Fellows (2024)

2024

Music / Comedy

6.3 from 10 with total 9 votes

1934-12-09

96 minutes

Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odessa and Moscow in the 1930\'s. 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.

Leonid Utyosov character Kostya Potekhin

Lyubov Orlova character Anyuta - the Housemaid

Mariya Strelkova character Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union

Fyodor Kurikhin character Mortician (as F.N. Kurikhin)

Emmanuil Geller character Music-hall audience member (uncredited)

Yelena Tyapkina character Anyuta's Stepmother (as Ye. Tyapkina)

Arnold Arnold character Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay (as G. Arnold)

Robert Erdman character German music teacher (as R. Yerdman)