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Jolly Fellows

Grigori Aleksandrov

1934 • 1h 36m

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...

Jolly Fellows

Cast

Leonid Utyosov

Leonid UtyosovKostya Potekhin

Lyubov Orlova

Lyubov OrlovaAnyuta, the housemaid

Mariya Strelkova

Mariya StrelkovaYelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union

Fyodor Kurikhin

Fyodor KurikhinMortician

Emmanuil Geller

Emmanuil GellerMusic-hall audience member (uncredited)

Yelena Tyapkina

Yelena TyapkinaAnyuta's stepmother

Niki Otto

Niki OttoMusician, fight instigator

Arnold Arnold

Arnold ArnoldFraschini, the conductor from Paraguay

Robert ErdmanGerman music teacher

Crew

Grigori Aleksandrov

Grigori AleksandrovDirector

Vladimir Mass

Vladimir MassWriter

Nikolay Erdman

Nikolay ErdmanWriter

Esfir Tobak

Esfir TobakEditor

Vladimir Nilsen

Vladimir NilsenDirector of Photography

Isaak Dunayevsky

Isaak DunayevskyOriginal Music Composer

Vadim Lyudvikovskiy

Vadim LyudvikovskiyConductor

Vasilii Lebedev-Kumach

Vasilii Lebedev-KumachLyricist

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