Jolly Fellows

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Leonid Utyosov

Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)

Age : 86 | Popularity : 3%

Lyubov Orlova

Анюта, домашняя работница (Anyuta - the Housemaid)

Age : 72 | Popularity : 3%

Mariya Strelkova

Елена - дитя Торгсина |Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union

Age : 54 | Popularity : 3%

Fyodor Kurikhin

Факельщик (Mortician)

Age : 60 | Popularity : 3%

Emmanuil Geller

Зритель, нет в титрах (Music-hall audience member (uncredited))

Age : 91 | Popularity : 3%

Yelena Tyapkina

Мачеха Анюты (Anyuta's Stepmother)

Age : 84 | Popularity : 3%

Niki Otto

Музыкант, зачинщик драки на репетиции

Age : 99 | Popularity : 3%

Arnold Arnold

Дирижер из Парагвая (Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay)

Age : 71 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Grigori Aleksandrov
Writing	Writer	Grigori Aleksandrov Nikolay Erdman Vladimir Mass
Production	Production Manager	Aleksandr Gurevich Isaak Markovich
	Producer	Igor Lopatonok
Sound	Original Music Composer	Isaak Dunayevsky
	Sound Engineer	Nikolai Timartsev
	Sound Recordist	Yevgeni Kashkevich Leonid Voskalchuk
	Music Editor	Arseniy Lapisov
	Conductor	Vadim Lyudvikovskiy
Art	Art Direction	Aleksei Utkin
Camera	Director of Photography	Vladimir Nilsen
Editing	Editor	Esfir Tobak
	Supervising Editor	Vera Nikolskaya
Department	Role	Name

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