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.
as Kostya Potekhin
as Anyuta, the housemaid
as Yelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union
as Mortician
as Music-hall audience member (uncredited)
as Anyuta's stepmother
as Musician, fight instigator
as Fraschini, the conductor from Paraguay
as German music teacher
