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.
Unfortunately the movie Jolly Fellows is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Directing | Grigori Aleksandrov | Director |
| Writing | Vladimir Mass | Writer |
| Writing | Nikolay Erdman | Writer |
| Writing | Grigori Aleksandrov | Writer |
| Sound | Isaak Dunayevsky | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Vladimir Nilsen | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Esfir Tobak | Editor |
| Art | Aleksei Utkin | Art Direction |
| Production | Igor Lopatonok | Producer |
| Sound | Leonid Voskalchuk | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Yevgeni Kashkevich | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Nikolai Timartsev | Sound Engineer |
| Editing | Vera Nikolskaya | Supervising Editor |
| Production | Aleksandr Gurevich | Production Manager |
| Production | Isaak Markovich | Production Manager |
| Sound | Arseniy Lapisov | Music Editor |
| Sound | Vadim Lyudvikovskiy | Conductor |
