Movie
1934
Jolly Fellows, also translated as Happy-Go-Lucky Guys, Moscow Laughs and Jazz Comedy, is a 1934 Soviet musical film, directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and starring his wife Lyubov Orlova, a gifted singer and the first recognized star of Soviet cinema.
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Some of the film critics in the West, especially those with a more snobbish outlook, are prone to reducing Soviet cinema to the golden age of artistic experimentation in the 1920s and considering everything that came afterwards as nothing more than crude Communist propaganda. In reality, Soviet cinema was much more diverse, even when constrained by Stalinist dogma of Socialist Realism, providing not only varied cont…More
