Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Grigori Aleksandrov Director
- Leonid Utyosov as Kostya Potekhin
- Lyubov Orlova as Анюта, домашняя работница (Anyuta - the Housemaid)
- Mariya Strelkova as Елена - дитя Торгсина |Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union
- Yelena Tyapkina Cast
- Fyodor Kurikhin as Факельщик (Mortician)
- Emmanuil Geller Cast
- Niki Otto Cast
- Arnold Arnold Cast
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