Music Comedy
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.
Directed by
Grigori Aleksandrov
Written by
Vladimir Mass, Grigori Aleksandrov, Nikolay Erdman
Emmanuil Geller
Music-hall audience member (uncredited)
Lyubov Orlova
Anyuta, the housemaid
Niki Otto
Musician, fight instigator
Yelena Tyapkina
Anyuta's stepmother
Leonid Utyosov
Kostya Potekhin
Fyodor Kurikhin
Mortician
Arnold Arnold
Fraschini, the conductor from Paraguay
Mariya Strelkova
Yelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union
Robert Erdman
German music teacher

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