Also known as "Vechera na Chutare Bliz Dikanki"

Based on the story “Christmas Eve” by Russian writer Nikolai Gogol - a great Russian novelist, dramatist, satirist, founder of the so-called critical realism in 19th-century Russian realist literature.
The Ukrainian countryside, with its colourful peasantry, its Cossack traditions, and its rich folklore, constituted the background of Gogol's boyhood, depicted in "Evenings on a Farm..." The whimsical combination of Christmas phantasmagoria and an eccentric fairy tale makes this film an unforgettable spectacle. The action takes place both in a village of Dikanka in the Ukraine and at the palace of a Russian Empress. Blacksmith Vacula has enraged the devil himself: in a church he painted the devil’s figure in such a way that even the Hell’s inhabitants could not help laughing... Meanwhile, Christmas is almost here... ,

Features

• Genre: Children's Movies
• Language Menu Selection
• Special Features:
• 1. Video subject “Alexander Row's fairy tales”
• 2. Interview with professor of VGIK’s departement of directing V. Ye. Dikhtyar
• Photo Album: Paintings of Ukraine
• Photo album
• Filmographies

Specifications

	Directed by:	Alexander Row (1961)
	Music by:	Arkady Filippenko
	Starring:	Alexander Khvylia, L. Myznikova, Yuri Tavrov, Liudmila Khityaeva, Sergei Martinson, Anatoly Kubatsky, Vera Altayskaya, Dmitry Kapka, Nikolai Yakovchenko, Georgy Millyar, Mikhail Troyanovsky, Alexei Smirnov
	Format:	Color, Dolby
	Studio:	Gorky Film Studio
	DVD Released:	March 2005
	Running Time:	69 min.
	Special Features:	Fairy Tales by A. Row; Interview with Dr. Y. Dikhtyar
	Languages:	Russian, English (voice over translation), French (voice over translation)
	Subtitles:	Russian, English, French, German, Spanish, Italian
	Region:	All Regions

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