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
mistaken identity
love
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Letterboxd
3.4 / 5
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Cast
Leonid Utyosov
Kostya Potekhin
Lyubov Orlova
Anyuta, the housemaid
Mariya Strelkova
Yelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union
Fyodor Kurikhin
Mortician
Emmanuil Geller
Music-hall audience member (uncredited)
Yelena Tyapkina
Anyuta's stepmother
Niki Otto
Musician, fight instigator
Arnold Arnold
Fraschini, the conductor from Paraguay
Crew
Grigori Aleksandrov
Director
Vladimir Mass
Writer
Grigori Aleksandrov
Writer
Nikolay Erdman
Writer
Isaak Dunayevsky
Original Music Composer
Esfir Tobak
Editor
Vladimir Nilsen
Director of Photography
Vadim Lyudvikovskiy
Conductor
Vasilii Lebedev-Kumach
Lyricist
Popular Reviews
2 reviews
Sandy
3.0★ · 12/28/25
Honestly speaking the only thing that kept me watching is my moms complaining and commentary on how bad this film is (SHE RECOMMENDED IT BTW)
«…a ету хрень как можна смотреть» мамыни слова после того, как она порекомендовала мне етот фильм
Honestly speaking the only thing that kept me watching is my moms complaining and commentary on how bad this film is (SHE RECOMMENDED IT BTW)
«…a ету хрень как можна смотреть» мамыни слова после того, как она порекомендовала мне етот фильм
