
Jolly Fellows
Music · Comedy
Overview
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.
Top Cast


Leonid Utyosov
Leonid Utyosov
Kostya Potekhin
Leonid Utyosov
Kostya Potekhin


Lyubov Orlova
Lyubov Orlova
Anyuta, the housemaid
Lyubov Orlova
Anyuta, the housemaid


Mariya Strelkova
Mariya Strelkova
Yelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union
Mariya Strelkova
Yelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union


Fyodor Kurikhin
Fyodor Kurikhin
Mortician
Fyodor Kurikhin
Mortician


Emmanuil Geller
Emmanuil Geller
Music-hall audience member (uncredited)
Emmanuil Geller
Music-hall audience member (uncredited)


Yelena Tyapkina
Yelena Tyapkina
Anyuta's stepmother
Yelena Tyapkina
Anyuta's stepmother


Niki Otto
Niki Otto
Musician, fight instigator
Niki Otto
Musician, fight instigator


Arnold Arnold
Arnold Arnold
Fraschini, the conductor from Paraguay
Arnold Arnold
Fraschini, the conductor from Paraguay
Robert Erdman
Robert Erdman
German music teacher
Robert Erdman
German music teacher
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