Jolly Fellows (1934) on Netflix
In Odessa, a wealthy woman who cannot sing mistakes the shepherd Kostya Potekhin for Costa Fraschini, a conductor from Paraguay, and invites him to her party. He arrives with his herd.
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Plot summary
Yelena has money and a wish to sing in public, though no ear for pitch, and when she hears of the conductor Costa Fraschini she takes the shepherd Kostya Potekhin for him and asks him to a party she is giving. Kostya accepts, thinking the invitation genuine, and arrives with the animals of his kolkhoz herd. The notes he plays on his pan flute call the beasts into the dining room, and the guests break up in confusion. Yelena's housemaid Anyuta, who loves him quietly, watches his eyes stay on Yelena. Once the mix-up comes out, Yelena's mother drives him off, and he sets out for the city to earn his living with music.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Jolly Fellows (1934)
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- The film's songs became instant classics across the Soviet Union; its most famous number, "Kak mnogo devushek khoroshikh" (Such a lot of nice girls), won international fame and was covered as "Serdtse" (Heart) by Pyotr Leshchenko.
- After the film was shown at the Australia Cinema in Melbourne in 1964, a small jazz band of three 19-year-old high school friends took the name "The Jolly Fellows" and kept it for over a decade.
