Jolly Fellows
Весёлые ребята
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.
Cast
Leonid Utyosov
Kostya Potekhin
Lyubov Orlova
Anyuta, the housemaid
Mariya Strelkova
Yelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union
Fyodor Kurikhin
Mortician
Emmanuil Geller
Music-hall audience member (uncredited)
Yelena Tyapkina
Anyuta's stepmother
Niki Otto
Musician, fight instigator
Arnold Arnold
Fraschini, the conductor from Paraguay
Robert Erdman
German music teacher
Similar Movies
7.3
The Pokrovsky Gates
1983
7.9
Only Old Men Are Going to Battle
1974
6.0
The Great Amateur
1958
6.7
The Young in Heart
1938
7.0
Hızır Dede
1964
5.5
The Lady and the Tramp
1968
6.2
Modern Cinderella
1965
0.0
What Now Mama
2025
5.8
Paper Heart
2009
5.4
Twelfth Night
2012
0.0
raeF
6.3
Shooting Fish
1997