Jolly Fellows (1935)

Name: Jolly Fellows
Genre: Comedy, Music
Released: 1935-03-24
Duration: 1 hr 36 min
Rating: 62
Cast: Leonid Utyosov, Lyubov Orlova, Mariya Strelkova, Fyodor Kurikhin, Emmanuil Geller

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StarringLeonid UtyosovLyubov OrlovaMariya Strelkova

DirectorGrigori Aleksandrov

WritersVladimir Mass

NR 1 hr 36 minMar 24th, 1935Comedy, Music

Plot

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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