Jolly Fellows

The story

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 & crew

Leonid UtyosovKostya Potekhin

Lyubov OrlovaAnyuta, the housemaid

Mariya StrelkovaYelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union

Fyodor KurikhinMortician

Emmanuil GellerMusic-hall audience member (uncredited)

Yelena TyapkinaAnyuta's stepmother

Niki OttoMusician, fight instigator

Arnold ArnoldFraschini, the conductor from Paraguay

Robert Erdman

Robert ErdmanGerman music teacher