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Jolly Fellows (1934) [N/A]

Release Date:
December 9, 1934

Original Title:
Весёлые ребята

Alternate Titles:
Die ganze Welt lacht
Hela världen skrattar
Hele Verden ler
Hele verden ler
I komodia tis zois
Iloiset pojat
Jolly Fellows
Les joyeux garçons
Lustige Burschen
Merry Fellows
Moscow Laughs
Os Alegres Foliões
Os Rapazes Felizes
Pastir Kostja
Ragazzi allegri
Swiat sie smieje
The Happy Guys
The World Is Laughing
Toata lumea rade, canta si danseaza
Tutto il mondo ride
Vesyolye rebyata
Vidám fickó
Веселите момчета
Веселые ребята
Весёлые ребята

Genres:
Comedy | Music

Production Companies:
Moscow kinokombinat

Production Countries:
Soviet Union

Ratings / Certifications:
FI: S  HU: 16  JP: R15+ 

Runtime: 96

Overview from TheMovieDB

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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Performers

  • 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)

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Production

Art Direction:
Aleksei Utkin

Conductor:
Vadim Lyudvikovskiy

Director:
Grigori Aleksandrov

Director of Photography:
Vladimir Nilsen

Editor:
Esfir Tobak

Music Editor:
Arseniy Lapisov

Original Music Composer:
Isaak Dunayevsky

Producer:
Igor Lopatonok

Production Manager:
Isaak Markovich
Aleksandr Gurevich

Sound Engineer:
Nikolai Timartsev

Sound Recordist:
Yevgeni Kashkevich
Leonid Voskalchuk

Supervising Editor:
Vera Nikolskaya

Writer:
Nikolay Erdman
Vladimir Mass
Grigori Aleksandrov

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