Moscow Laughs
Vesyolye rebyata
1934, Film, 96 min, Comedy, Musical, Russian, 0, MoviePedia score 65
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. 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.
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Directed by Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Cast
- Leonid Utyosov as Kostya Potekhin
- Lyubov Orlova as Anyuta - the Housemaid
- Mariya Strelkova as Elena
- Elena Tyapkina as Elena's stepmother
- Fyodor Kurikhin as Mortician
- Arnold Arnold as Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay
- Robert Erdman as Music teacher
- Marya Ivanovna
- Aleksey Dudin as Musician
- Emmanuil Geller as Music-hall audience member
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