Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
– Based on the story ‘Christmas Eve’ by Nikolai Gogol, this eccentric and fantastical fairy tale t..
Based on the story ‘Christmas Eve’ by Nikolai Gogol, 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 Saint Petersburg, where he hopes to obtain a pair of the Empress’s slippers which might win him Oksana’s love.
31 Dec 2001
Russian
Semyon Gorov
Nikolai Gogol (short novel "Night Before Christmas"), Anton Fridlyand
Oleg Skripka, Ani Lorak, Filipp Kirkorov, Lolita Milyavskaya
In the remote Ukrainian village of Dikanka, handsome but poor Vakula loves the beautiful Oxana, but she's holding out for a wealthy prince, and her father doesn't think much of him either. On Christmas Eve she sends him on a ridiculous quest for dancing shoes that takes him all the way to the imperial palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia, with the help of some odd characters from the village and the Devil himself.