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Jolly Fellows

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Jolly Fellows

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Jolly Fellows, also translated as Happy-Go-Lucky Guys, Moscow Laughs and Jazz Comedy, is a 1934 Soviet musical film, directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and starring his wife Lyubov Orlova, a gifted singer and the first recognized star of Soviet cinema.

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1934 · 1h 36m · 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.

Directed by Grigori Aleksandrov

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Cast & crew

Grigori AleksandrovDirector

Leonid Utyosovas Kostya Potekhin

Lyubov Orlovaas Anyuta, the housemaid

Mariya Strelkovaas Yelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union

Fyodor Kurikhinas Mortician

Emmanuil Gelleras Music-hall audience member (uncredited)

Yelena Tyapkinaas Anyuta's stepmother

Niki Ottoas Musician, fight instigator

Arnold Arnoldas Fraschini, the conductor from Paraguay RRobert Erdmanas German music teacher