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Moscow Laughs ()

Vesyolye rebyata (original title)
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A musically talented shepherd gets his big chance when he is mistaken for a famous conductor.
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Kostya Potekhin
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Anyuta - the Housemaid
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Yelena - Child of the Foreign Trade Union
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Yelena's mother (as Ye. Tyapkina)
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Mortician (as F.N. Kurikhin)
Arnold Arnold ...
Fraschini - the conductor from Paraguay (as G. Arnold)
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German music teacher (as R. Yerdman)
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Marya Ivanovna
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Music-hall audience member (uncredited)

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Grigoriy Aleksandrov ... (as G. V. Aleksandrov)

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Grigoriy Aleksandrov ... () (as G. V. Aleksandrov)
 
Nikolay Erdman ... () (as N. R. Erdman)
 
Vladimir Mass ... () (as V. Z. Mass)

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Isaak Dunaevskiy ... (as I. O. Dunayevsky)

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Vladimir Nilsen ... (as V. S. Nilsen)

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Esfir Tobak ... (as E.V. Tobak)

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Vera Nikolskaya ... supervising editor (as V. Nikolskaya)

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Aleksei Utkin ... (as A.A. Utkin)

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Aleksandr Gurevich ... production manager (as A. Gurevich)
Isaak Zaionts ... production manager (as I. Zaionts)

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Iosif Gerasimovich ... poster artist
Leonid Voronov ... poster artist (as Voronov)

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Evgeniy Kashkevich ... sound recordist
Nikolai Timartsev ... sound engineer (as N. A. Timartsev)
Leonid Voskalchuk ... sound recordist (as L. Voskalchuk)

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Arseniy Lapisov ... music editor (as A. Lapisov)
Vadim Lyudvikovskiy ... conductor / musical director

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Plot Summary

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. Written by Steve Shelokhonov

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Also Known As
  • Весёлые ребята (Soviet Union, Russian title)
  • The World Is Laughing (United States)
  • Jolly Fellows (United States)
  • Moscow Laughs (United States)
  • Jazz Comedy (United Kingdom)
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  • 96 min
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Movie Connections Featured in Komediya davno minuvshikh dney (1980). See more »
Soundtracks Marsh vesyolykh rebyat See more »
Crazy Credits The animated credits begin with the names and faces of Charles Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton, followed on the next title by the text "do not participate in this film". The letters are then mixed and reappear as "in this film participate", followed by the actual cast members. The credits also list "Marya Ivanovna" with a large question mark; the question mark turns into a cow, which then paints with her tail the title of the film (in the film, Marya Ivanovna happens to be the name of a lazy cow in the herd tended by the main character Kostya Potekhin). See more »
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