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Jolly Fellows
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Jolly Fellows is a 1934 Soviet musical comedy film directed by Grigori Aleksandrov. The screenplay was written by Nikolai Erdman and Grigori Aleksandrov, with music composed by Isaak Dunayevsky. The production was handled by Mosfilm, which also distributed the black-and-white movie. The cast features Lyubov Orlova and Leonid Utyosov.
The film was released in the Soviet Union, with specific dates listed as December 9 and December 25, 1934. It runs for 96 minutes and explores themes of mistaken identity and love. The original language of the film is Russian.
Critical reception data includes a rating of 6.8 from IMDb and a vote average of 6.364 from TMDb. The work is categorized as a musical film, comedy film, and melodrama.
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6.4Merry 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.
Cast
- Leonid Utyosov as Kostya Potekhin
- Lyubov Orlova as Anyuta, the housemaid
- Mariya Strelkova as Yelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union
- Fyodor Kurikhin as Mortician
- Emmanuil Geller as Music-hall audience member (uncredited)
- Yelena Tyapkina as Anyuta's stepmother
Themes
- mistaken identity
- love
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- melodrama
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Original language
- Russian
- Director
- Grigori Aleksandrov
- Screenwriter
- Grigori Aleksandrov
- Composer
- Isaak Dunayevsky
- Production company
- Mosfilm
- Duration
- 96
- FilmAffinity ID
- 838467
- Image
- Веселые ребята.jpg
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- publication date
- 1934-12-25
- title
- Весёлые ребята
- color
- black-and-white
- distributed by
- Mosfilm
- Commons category
- Jolly Fellows
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