TMDb Rating
6.2/10
19 verified votes
Jolly Fellows (1934)
MusicComedy
96 min
Plot Summary
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.
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MusicComedyGrigori AleksandrovLeonid UtyosovLyubov Orlova1934
Director
Grigori Aleksandrov
Top Cast
Leonid UtyosovLyubov OrlovaMariya StrelkovaFyodor KurikhinEmmanuil Geller
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