Overview
Shepherd Kostya Potekhin is mistaken for an international concert star. He falls in love with Anyuta 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 Odesa Music Hall. Now he is destined to perform at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
Fun facts
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Music
Music by Isaak Dunayevsky
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Vladimir Nilsen and Boris Aretskiy
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Vladimir MassWriter
- Grigori AleksandrovWriter
- Nikolay ErdmanWriter
- Original title
- Весёлые ребята
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 9, 1934
- Original language
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
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Leonid UtyosovKostya Potekhin
Lyubov OrlovaAnyuta, the housemaid
Mariya StrelkovaYelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union
Fyodor KurikhinMortician
Emmanuil GellerMusic-hall audience member (uncredited)
Yelena TyapkinaAnyuta's stepmother
Niki OttoMusician, fight instigator
Arnold ArnoldFraschini, the conductor from Paraguay- Robert ErdmanGerman music teacher
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