The World Is Laughing
Soviet musical comedy, 96 min, 1934
in Russian with Hungarian subtitles
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Director: Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Screenplay by: Grigori Aleksandrov, Nikolay Erdman, Vladimir Mass
Music by: Isaak Dunayevsky
Cast: Leonid Utyosov, Lyubov Orlova, Mariya Strelkova, Elena Tyapkina, Fyodor Kurikhin, Arnold Arnold, Robert Erdman
Screening from a 35mm print!
Before the screening, film critic Judit Bárdos will give an introduction.
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.
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