EVENINGS ON A FARM NEAR DIKANKA (1961)

EVENINGS ON A FARM NEAR DEKANKA (Russian: Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки, romanized: Vechera na khutore bliz Dikanki), also known as The Night Before Christmas Evenings, 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.

Plot
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 heels which might win him Oksana's love.

Cast
Aleksandr Khvylya as Chub
Lyudmyla Myznikova as Oksana
Yuri Tavrov as Vakula
Lyudmila Khityaeva as Solokha
Sergei Martinson as Osip, the Sacristan
Anatoly Kubatsky as Panas
Vera Altayskaya as Wife of Panas
Dmitri Kapka as Shanuvalenko
Mykola Yakovchenko as Patsyuk
Maryna Sidorchuk as Odarka
Aleksandr Radunsky as The Head
Georgi Millyar as The Devil
Aleksei Smirnov
Mikhail Troyanovsky
Aleksandr Demyanenko