Synopsis:
Yelena (Mariya Strelkova), a well-off would-be singer who can’t carry a tune, mistakes shepherd Kostya Potekhin (Leonid Utyosov) for a famous Italian conductor of a jazz orchestra and invites him to an elegant party held in her house. He plays his pan flute, which attracts the herd of animals from his kolkhoz to the dining tables. Yelena’s servant Anyuta (Lyubov Orlova) falls for Kostya. But Kostya is attracted to Yelena, and when she turns him down following the discovery of his real identity, he is very upset. He leaves for the city to try himself as a professional musician and finds himself in many comical situations. Eventually he joins a jazz band consisting of young “jolly fellows”. Kostya becomes a head of the band and it turns to be quite a challenge – not only is he supposed to manage the creative work and performances but he must also control his quick-tempered bandmates, whose fiery arguments sometimes turn rehearsals into a brawl that results in the band being turned out of the house by their landlord. Because of this the band is urged to rehearse before a forthcoming performance right in the street and even play at funerals for more practice. On a rainy evening Kostya and his band mates accidentally meet Anyuta on their way to a concert hall and take her with them. She is revealed to be an excellent singer, so she joins the band and they start to perform together successfully.

1.47GB | 1h 33m | 684×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/33511D7C1A6D56E/Jolly_Fellows_(1934)_–_Grigori_Aleksandrov.mkv
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or
https://nitro.download/view/BD289F5B12DE913/Jolly_Fellows_(1934)_–_Grigori_Aleksandrov.part1.rar
https://nitro.download/view/ADE9E0A6AA14E1F/Jolly_Fellows_(1934)_–_Grigori_Aleksandrov.part2.rar

Language:Russian
Subtitles:English (muxed, srt)

The post Grigoriy Aleksandrov – Vesyolye rebyata AKA Jolly Fellows (1934) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
From his early silent works, the great Russian film director, Herr Yakov Protazanov, made literary adaptations from equally great Russian writers, as is the case with “Chiny I Lyudi” ( Ranks And People ) (1929) in which three short stories by Chekhov, “Anna On The Neck”, “Death Of A Petty Official” and “Chameleon” were assembled for the silent screen.
“Anna On The Neck” tells the story the young and beautiful Anna (Mariya Strelkova ) who has just married an old but rich civil servant. Anna thinks her marriage will rescue her father and her two brothers from a miserable life of poverty. Anna becomes disenchanted fast when her rich husband turns out to be an avaricious and severe man. Anna’s sad life changes when she attends a posh ball and every man there, including the mayor, is charmed by her. Anna’s husband hopes to get business advantages through this but Anna is thinking of revenge.

The second episode, “Death Of A Petty Official” depicts the story of Herr Cherviakov (Ivan Moskvin ) who together with his wife attends a ballet; during the performance, the civil servant sneezes on a functionary of high rank and offers apology after apology all during and at the end of the spectacle. The general pays no mind to the incident but is harassed by this minor official who won’t let the matter drop and, time after time, keeps on apologizing, writing letters asking for forgiveness or visiting the functionary at home.
In the third film episode,” Chameleon”, a small dog bites the finger of a passer-by. The furious man seizes it and asks two policemen to charge the owner of the dog. Both agents begin to draft the report but a change of attitude occurs at once when a man comes to tell them that this dog belongs to the mayor.

797MB | 1h 4mn | 720×544 | avi
https://nitro.download/view/8C89DE7A16ABE8F/Yakov_Protazanov_Chiny_i_lyudi_(1929).avi
http://www.nitroflare.com/view/72DE14CEE47F71F/chini-i-lyudi-1929.eng.srt

Language(s):Russian
Subtitles:English

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