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
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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
Robert Erdman
German music teacher
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