The Night Before Christmas (1961 film)

The Night Before Christmas, also known as Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka (Russian: Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки, romanized: Vechera na khutore bliz Dikanki), is a 1961 Soviet fantasy film directed by Aleksandr Rou, based on a Christmas Eve, first story in the second volume of the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol.

The Night Before Christmas
Directed byAleksandr Rou
Written byAleksandr Rou
Based onChristmas Eve
by Nikolai Gogol
StarringAlexander Khvylya
Lyudmila Myznikova
Yuri Tavrov
Lyudmila Khityaeva
Sergey Martinson
Anatoly Kubatsky
Georgy Millyar
Music byArkadi Filippenko
CinematographyDmitri Surensky
Edited byKseniya Blinova
Production
company
Release date
  • December 1961 (1961-12)
Running time
69 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Plot

This eccentric and fantastical fairy tale takes place near the village of Dikanka on the night before Christmas. Amid carol singing, drunken revelry, and amorous hijinks, the blacksmith Vakula persuades the Devil to fly him to Sankt-Petersburg, where he hopes to obtain a pair of the Empress's heels which might win him Oksana's love.

Cast

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