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Jolly Fellows (1934)
Genres: Music, Comedy
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.
- Leonid Utyosov as Kostya Potekhin
- Lyubov Orlova as Anyuta, the housemaid
- Mariya Strelkova as Yelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union
- Fyodor Kurikhin as Mortician
- Emmanuil Geller as Music-hall audience member (uncredited)
- Yelena Tyapkina as Anyuta's stepmother
- Niki Otto as Musician, fight instigator
- Arnold Arnold as Fraschini, the conductor from Paraguay