May Nights (1952)

Original title

Майская ночь, или Утопленница

Directed by

Alexander Rou

Genre

fantasy film, comedy film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 01m

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man tries to win the heart of a woman with the help of a mysterious drowned maiden. The story is based on a tale by Nikolai Gogol and an opera by Rimsky-Korsakov.

whimsicallightheartedfolkloricplayfulnostalgiccolorfulcheerful

What happens

May Nights (Russian: Майская ночь, или Утопленница, romanized: Maiskaya noch, ili utoplennitsa) is a 1952 Soviet 3D fantasy comedy film released by Moscow Gorky Film Studios, directed by Aleksandr Rou and starring Nikolai Dosenko, Tatyana Konyukhova and Aleksandr Khvylya. It is based on Nikolai Gogol's May Night, or the Drowned Maiden and the subsequent opera version by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. It was directed by Alexander Rowe. The film is notable for being the first full-length autostereoscopic film in colour. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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