Jolly Fellows
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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 Odesa Music Hall. Now he is destined to perform at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
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Cast
9 people
Leonid Utyosov
Kostya Potekhin
Also in
The Career of Spirka Shpandyr
The Life and Death of Lieutenant Schmidt
Lyubov Orlova
Anyuta, the housemaid
Also in
Volga - Volga
Circus
Mariya Strelkova
Yelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union
Also in
Capt. Grant's Family
Ranks and People
Fyodor Kurikhin
Mortician
Also in
Circus
Baltic Deputy
Emmanuil Geller
Music-hall audience member (uncredited)
Known for
The Twelve Chairs
Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures
Yelena Tyapkina
Anyuta's stepmother
Known for
War and Peace
War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova
Niki Otto
Musician, fight instigator
Also in
Circus
Volga - Volga
Arnold Arnold
Fraschini, the conductor from Paraguay
Also in
The New Babylon
The Devil's Wheel
Robert Erdman
German music teacher
Also in
Outskirts
Grigori Aleksandrov Director · Nikolay Erdman Writer Vladimir Mass Writer
United States release March 24, 1935 · Produced in Russia, Russia · Original title Весёлые ребята
Production
Moscow kinokombinat
Production
Russia · Russia
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Весёлые ребята
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Finland · December 9, 1934
Theatrical
Russia · December 25, 1934
Theatrical
United States · March 24, 1935
Theatrical
Denmark
December 26, 1935 · Theatrical
France
December 21, 1934 · Theatrical
Germany
December 28, 1945 · Theatrical
Hungary
September 13, 1945 · Theatrical
Japan
July 11, 1935 · Theatrical
Portugal
February 14, 1936 · Theatrical
Sweden
October 15, 1936 · Theatrical
XC
December 21, 1945 · Theatrical · Re-release
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