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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.
Keywords
mistaken identity
love
Casts
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)
Crews
Grigori Aleksandrov
Director
Vladimir Mass
Writer
Nikolay Erdman
Writer
Grigori Aleksandrov
Writer
Isaak Dunayevsky
Original Music Composer
Vladimir Nilsen
Director of Photography
Esfir Tobak
Editor
Yevgeni Kashkevich
Sound Recordist
Nikolai Timartsev
Sound Engineer
Vadim Lyudvikovskiy
Conductor
Aleksei Utkin
Production Design
Isaak Zayonts
Producer
Vasilii Lebedev-Kumach
Lyricist
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