Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odessa and Moscow in the 1930s. 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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Cast
Леонид Утёсов
Kostya Potekhin
Любовь Орлова
Anyuta, the housemaid
Мария Стрелкова
Yelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union
Фёдор Курихин
Mortician
Эммануил Геллер
Music-hall audience member (uncredited)
Елена Тяпкина
Anyuta's stepmother
Niki Otto
Musician, fight instigator
Арнольд Арнольд
Fraschini, the conductor from Paraguay
Роберт Эрдман
German music teacher