Movie Details
Theatrical Release:March 24th, 1935
Original Language:Russian
Executive Producers:Isaak Zayonts
Jolly Fellows (1935)
Audience Score
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.
DirectorGrigori Aleksandrov
