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.
Top 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)
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