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Jolly Fellows

1934 • 1h36m Music, Comedy

Rating

6.4/10

Popularity

2

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.

Details

Director

Grigori Aleksandrov

Screenplay

Vladimir Mass

Grigori Aleksandrov

Nikolay Erdman

Cast

Leonid Utyosov

Lyubov Orlova

Mariya Strelkova

Release date

12/9/1934

Status

Released

Origin country

SU

Vote count

22