Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka

(1961)

★ 7.5 IMDb · 2,141 votes

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Year: 1961

Runtime: 69 min

Country: Soviet Union

Director: Александр Роу

Cast: Александр Хвыля, Людмила Мызникова, Юрий Тавров, Людмила Хитяева, Сергей Мартинсон

Plot

The story that happened on the farm near Dikanka on the night before Christmas, when the village blacksmith Vakula, having saddled the Devil, brought to his beloved Oksana, the daughter of a rich Cossack Chub, queen's "сherevichki"(the little women shoes) from the capital — St. Petersburg.

A film adaptation of Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol's novel "The Night Before Christmas" from the series "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka" was staged by Aleksandr Rou, the "master of film fairy-tale". A fairy tale story is played out that happened on a farm near Dikanka on the night before Christmas, when village blacksmith Vakula, riding a devil, brought Tsarina's shoes to his beloved Oksana, the daughter of a rich Cossack Chub, from St. Petersburg.