Moscow Laughs
1934 · 1 hr 36 min
7.088%65%
Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odessa and Moscow in the 1930's. 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.
Directed By
Grigori AleksandrovWritten By
Grigori Aleksandrov, Nikolay Erdman, Vladimir MassStudio
Moscow kinokombinatCast of Moscow Laughs
Leonid UtyosovKostya Potekhin
Lyubov OrlovaAnyuta - the Housemaid
Mariya StrelkovaYelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union
Fyodor KurikhinMortician (as F.N. Kurikhin)
Emmanuil GellerMusic-hall audience member (uncredited)
Yelena TyapkinaAnyuta's Stepmother (as Ye. Tyapkina)
Arnold ArnoldFraschini - the conductor from Paraguay (as G. Arnold)
Robert ErdmanGerman music teacher (as R. Yerdman)