Underplayed Gems

Jolly Fellows (1934)

Jolly Fellows poster
Original title
Весёлые ребята
Directed by
Grigori Aleksandrov
Genre
comedy film, musical film, melodrama
Country
Soviet Union
Runtime
1h 36m
Rated
15
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 22 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A musical comedy where a zany shepherd and a clever maid take part in a series of mishaps and musical numbers. Their antics lead to a big public performance that puts their talents on display.

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What happens

Jolly Fellows (Russian: Весёлые ребята, romanized: Vesyolye rebyata), also translated as Happy-Go-Lucky Guys, Moscow Laughs and Jazz Comedy, is a 1934 Soviet musical film, directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and starring his wife Lyubov Orlova, a gifted singer and the first recognized star of Soviet cinema. The script was written by Aleksandrov, Vladimir Mass, and Nikolai Erdman (whose father briefly appears on screen as a German music teacher). It features several songs which instantly became classics across the Soviet Union. The most famous song — "Kak mnogo devushek khoroshikh" (Such a lot of nice girls) — enjoyed international fame, covered as "Serdtse" (Heart) by Pyotr Leshchenko. Music was by Isaak Dunayevsky, the lyrics were written by the Soviet poet Vasily Lebedev-Kumach. Both Orlova and her co-star, the jazz singer and comic actor Leonid Utyosov, were propelled to stardom after this movie. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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