Jolly Fellows (1934)
December 9, 1934Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Leonid Utyosov
Костя Потехин (Kostya Potekhin)
Lyubov Orlova
Анюта, домашняя работница (Anyuta - the Housemaid)
Mariya Strelkova
Елена - дитя Торгсина |Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union
Fyodor Kurikhin
Факельщик (Mortician)
Emmanuil Geller
Зритель, нет в титрах (Music-hall audience member (uncredited))
Yelena Tyapkina
Мачеха Анюты (Anyuta's Stepmother)
Niki Otto
Музыкант, зачинщик драки на репетиции
Robert Erdman
German music teacher
Arnold Arnold
Дирижер из Парагвая (Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay)
Robert Erdman
Учитель музыки (German music teacher)
Grigori Aleksandrov
Director / Writer
Vladimir Mass
Writer
Nikolay Erdman
Writer
Isaak Dunayevsky
Original Music Composer
Vladimir Nilsen
Director of Photography
Esfir Tobak
Editor
Igor Lopatonok
Producer
Leonid Voskalchuk
Sound Recordist
Yevgeni Kashkevich
Sound Recordist
Nikolai Timartsev
Sound Engineer
Vera Nikolskaya
Supervising Editor
Aleksandr Gurevich
Production Manager
Isaak Markovich
Production Manager
Arseniy Lapisov
Music Editor
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 9, 1934
Original NameВесёлые ребята
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 36m
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
Jolly Fellows (Russian: Весёлые ребята, romanized: 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.