Summary
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.
Good for
- Date night
- Family movie night
- Friends night
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Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 67GoodWatch 66
IMDb6.8
Letterboxd · 1 K ratings3.3/5
Running time
1 h 36 min
A typical length for music movies, −10 min on the typical 106
typical 10696Half of all music movies run 94–120 min.
Reach
Streams in 139 countries
+129Released
1934
December 9, 1934
92 years ago
Genres
MusicComedyLanguage
Russian
Original language
Made in
Russia
and 6 more9 people
- Leonid UtyosovKostya Potekhin
- Lyubov OrlovaAnyuta, the housemaid
- Mariya StrelkovaYelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union
- Fyodor KurikhinMortician
- Emmanuil GellerMusic-hall audience member (uncredited)
- Yelena TyapkinaAnyuta's stepmother
- Niki OttoMusician, fight instigator
- Arnold ArnoldFraschini, the conductor from Paraguay
Robert ErdmanGerman music teacher
Directing · 1
- Grigori Aleksandrov Director, Writer
Writing · 3
- Nikolay Erdman Writer
- Vladimir Mass Writer
- Vasilii Lebedev-Kumach Lyricist
Production · 1
- Isaak Zayonts Executive Producer
Camera · 1
- Vladimir Nilsen Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Esfir Tobak Editor
Sound · 3
- Isaak Dunayevsky Original Music Composer
- Vadim Lyudvikovskiy Conductor
- Nikolai Timartsev Sound Recordist
Art · 1
- Aleksei Utkin Production Design
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