Jolly Fellows
1934 · 96 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 1,126 VOTES · DIR. Grigori Aleksandrov
Overview
Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odessa and Moscow in the 1930s. Shepherd Kostya Potekhin (Utyosov) is mistaken for an international concert star. He falls in love with Anyuta (Orlova) 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.
Dialogue Timeline — 642 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:01 Music comedy
00:03:05 Cities and countrysides admire the song
00:06:34 Kolka!
00:10:14 Costa Frascini!
00:16:02 How I envy you.
00:17:05 Sing something, lady.
00:19:35 I'll wait for him.
00:22:09 I didn't made it.
00:25:16 She has no hands, she has no vote.
00:27:46 It can sweep a bull off his feet.
00:35:56 Good toy, well made.
00:39:36 No, he's there.
00:42:40 Suprisingly beautiful
00:45:13 She's mad at me.
00:47:41 And you want to gain happiness.
00:51:16 "Passing on the backstage prohibited"
00:59:50 Hold him. Harder.
01:02:37 And devil knows, what's going on from the morning.
01:07:07 Where?
01:13:07 We rode? We rode!
01:16:40 Go on, squarely, to be happy!
01:21:23 Love will stun you unexpected
01:24:48 Aniuta, I always wanted to say to you...
01:29:03 Translated by stodwa
Cast & Characters
Leonid Utyosov
Kostya Potekhin
Lyubov Orlova
Anyuta - the Housemaid
Mariya Strelkova
Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union
Elena Tyapkina
Yelena's mother
Fyodor Kurikhin
Mortician
Arnold Arnold
Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay
Robert Erdman
German music teacher
Marya Ivanovna
Emmanuil Geller
Music-hall audience member
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed642
Dialogue density6.7 lines / min
First line00:00:01
Final line01:29:03
Production Record
DirectorGrigori Aleksandrov
LanguageRussian
IMDb votes1,126