Jolly Fellows
96 mins
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.
Vladimir Mass
Writer
Yevgeni Kashkevich
Sound Recordist
Nikolai Timartsev
Sound Engineer
Aleksei Utkin
Production Design
Isaak Zayonts
Producer
Vasilii Lebedev-Kumach
Lyricist