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Jolly Fellows (1934 film)
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Jolly Fellows (Russian: Весёлые ребята) was the first Soviet musical comedy film (1934), 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 horoshih" (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.
Yelena (Mariya Strelkova), a wanna-be singer who is unable to hold the tune, mistakes shepherd Kostya Potekhin (Leonid Utyosov) for a famous conductor of a jazz orchestra and invites him to an elegant party. He plays his pan flute, which attracts the herd of animals from his kolkhoz to the dining tables. Yelena's servant Anyuta (Lyubov Orlova) falls for Kostya. Anyuta turns out to be an excellent singer.
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