Jolly Fellows(1934)

Name: Jolly Fellows
Director: Grigori Aleksandrov
Released: 1934-12-09
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Leonid Utyosov, Lyubov Orlova, Mariya Strelkova, Fyodor Kurikhin, Emmanuil Geller

12/09/1934 (US)Music, Comedy1h 36m

6.2

Overview

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.

Grigori Aleksandrov

Director

Vladimir Mass

Writer

Nikolay Erdman

Writer

Grigori Aleksandrov

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