A Night Before Christmas (1961)

Original title

Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки

Directed by

Alexander Rou

Genre

fantasy film, Christmas film, romantic comedy film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 06m

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 69 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young blacksmith competes with a devil to win the love of a beautiful woman on Christmas Eve. Magical events and folk traditions create a comic holiday adventure.

whimsicalfestivelightheartedromanticplayfulfolkloricslightly eeriemagical

What happens

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 1832 collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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