Jolly Fellows

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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Leonid Utyosov

Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)

Lyubov Orlova

Анюта, домашняя работница (Anyuta - the Housemaid)

Mariya Strelkova

Елена - дитя Торгсина |Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union

Fyodor Kurikhin

Факельщик (Mortician)

Emmanuil Geller

Зритель, нет в титрах (Music-hall audience member (uncredited))

Yelena Tyapkina

Мачеха Анюты (Anyuta's Stepmother)

Niki Otto

Музыкант, зачинщик драки на репетиции

Arnold Arnold

Дирижер из Парагвая (Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay)

Robert Erdman

Учитель музыки (German music teacher)

Art

Aleksei Utkin

Production Design

Camera

Vladimir Nilsen

Director of Photography

Directing

Editing

Esfir Tobak

Editor

Production

Isaak Markovich

Production Manager

Aleksandr Gurevich

Production Manager

Igor Lopatonok

Producer

Sound

Isaak Dunayevsky

Original Music Composer

Leonid Voskalchuk

Sound Recordist

Yevgeni Kashkevich

Sound Recordist

Nikolai Timartsev

Sound Engineer

Art

Aleksei Utkin

Production Design

Camera

Vladimir Nilsen

Director of Photography

Directing

Editing

Esfir Tobak

Editor

Production

Isaak Markovich

Production Manager

Aleksandr Gurevich

Production Manager

Igor Lopatonok

Producer

Sound

Isaak Dunayevsky

Original Music Composer

Leonid Voskalchuk

Sound Recordist

Yevgeni Kashkevich

Sound Recordist

Nikolai Timartsev

Sound Engineer