Весёлые ребята (1934)

Comedy Music

Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odessa and Moscow in the 1930's. 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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Runtime: 96 mins Rating: 6.4

Cast

Emmanuil Geller

Music-hall audience member (uncredited)

Lyubov Orlova

Anyuta - the Housemaid

Leonid Utyosov

Kostya Potekhin

Yelena Tyapkina

Anyuta's Stepmother (as Ye. Tyapkina)

Fyodor Kurikhin

Mortician (as F.N. Kurikhin)

Mariya Strelkova

Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union

Niki Otto

Arnold Arnold

Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay (as G. Arnold)

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Весёлые ребята (1934)

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