Jolly Fellows

• Lyubov Orlova: Anjuta
• Leonid Utyosov: Kostya Potechin
• Marija Strelkowa: Yelena

Jolly Fellows (Russian Весёлые ребята ) is a slightly ironic musical comedy of mistaken identity, which is considered the first Soviet film musical.

In 1934 realized Grigori Alexandrov, the former assistant and co-author Sergei Eisenstein, who had accompanied his teacher on his trips to the West and there met the Hollywood film, jazz comedy Jolly Fellows with the music of Isaac Dunajewskis and the well- at that time the most famous Soviet jazz musician Leonid Utyosov to which the main role of the film was cut.

The emphasis is not placed in the film to the action, so it 's more of a loosely connected sequence of musical numbers. Just as in the American movie musical, the main characters are especially keen to bring their music in the metropolis with success on the stage. In the film, a musical versatile shepherd is confused by several visitors who are looking into a fashionable seaside resort in the Crimea recovery, with a well-known composer. The shepherd Kostya Potechin comes from the south, from the Crimea to Moscow, gets there almost by accident in the Music Hall and may eventually occur with his friends even at the Bolshoi Theatre.