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Jolly Fellows (Russian: Весёлые ребята Vesyolye rebyata), also translated as Happy-Go-Lucky Guys, Moscow Laughs and Jazz Comedy, is a 1934 Soviet musical film, directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and starring his wife Lyubov Orlova, a gifted singer and the first recognized star of Soviet cinema. The script was written by Aleksandrov, Vladimir Mass, and Nikolai Erdman (whose father briefly appears on screen as a German music teacher). It features several songs which instantly became classics across the Soviet Union. The most famous song — "Kak mnogo devushek khoroshikh" (Such a lot of nice girls) — enjoyed international fame, covered as "Serdtse" (Heart) by Pyotr Leshchenko. Music was by Isaak Dunayevsky, the lyrics were written by the Soviet poet Vasily Lebedev-Kumach. Both Orlova and her co-star, the jazz singer and comic actor Leonid Utyosov, were propelled to stardom after this movie.
Original Release
12/09/1934
US Release
03/24/1935
Cast
Name | Character |
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Leonid Utyosov | Kostya Potekhin |
Lyubov Orlova | Anyuta - the Housemaid |
Mariya Strelkova | Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union |
Elena Tyapkina | Anyuta's Stepmother (as Ye. Tyapkina) / Yelena's mother |
Fyodor Kurikhin | Mortician (as F.N. Kurikhin) / Mortician |
Arnold Arnold | Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay (as G. Arnold) / Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay |
Robert Erdman | German music teacher (as R. Yerdman) / German music teacher |
Marya Ivanovna | |
Emmanuil Geller | Music-hall audience member |
N. Otto |
Directors
Writers
Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Nikolay Erdman, Vladimir Mass
Cast
Name | Character |
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Leonid Utyosov | Kostya Potekhin |
Lyubov Orlova | Anyuta - the Housemaid |
Mariya Strelkova | Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union |
Elena Tyapkina | Anyuta's Stepmother (as Ye. Tyapkina) / Yelena's mother |
Fyodor Kurikhin | Mortician (as F.N. Kurikhin) / Mortician |
Arnold Arnold | Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay (as G. Arnold) / Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay |
Robert Erdman | German music teacher (as R. Yerdman) / German music teacher |
Marya Ivanovna | |
Emmanuil Geller | Music-hall audience member |
N. Otto |