Released:
1934-12-09

Overview:
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.

Director:
Grigori Aleksandrov

Runtime:
1h 36min

Genre:
Music, Comedy

• Cast:
• 
  Leonid Utyosov
  as
  Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)
• 
  Lyubov Orlova
  as
  Анюта, домашняя работница (Anyuta - the Housemaid)
• 
  Mariya Strelkova
  as
  Елена - дитя Торгсина |Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union
• 
  Fyodor Kurikhin
  as
  Факельщик (Mortician)
• 
  Emmanuil Geller
  as
  Зритель, нет в титрах (Music-hall audience member (uncredited))