Jolly Fellows (1934)
December 9, 1934Release Date
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Leonid Utyosov
Kostya Potekhin
Lyubov Orlova
Anyuta - the Housemaid
Mariya Strelkova
Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union
Yelena Tyapkina
Yelena's mother
Fyodor Kurikhin
Mortician
Arnold Arnold
Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay
Niki Otto
Музыкант, зачинщик драки на репетиции
Robert Erdman
German music teacher
Robert Erdman
German music teacher
Emmanuil Geller
Music-hall audience member
Grigori Aleksandrov
Director
Aleksandr Gurevich
Production Manager
Nikolay Erdman
Writer
Vladimir Mass
Writer
Isaak Dunayevsky
Composer
Aleksei Utkin
Art Direction
Vladimir Nilsen
Cinematographer
Nikolai Timartsev
Sound Engineer
Esfir Tobak
Editor
Yevgeni Kashkevich
Sound Recordist
Igor Lopatonok
Producer
Vera Nikolskaya
Supervising Editor
Isaak Markovich
Production Manager
Leonid Voskalchuk
Sound Recordist
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 9, 1934
Original NameВесёлые ребята
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 36m
Genres
Wiki.
Jolly Fellows (Russian: Весёлые ребята, romanized: Vesjolyje rebjata), 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.