On one of them Oksana notices the cherevichks embroidered by gold (that is shoes) and is proud declares that will marry Vakula if that brings it cherevichks, 'which the queen carries'. The forelock goes to Vakula's mother, Solokha who and is that witch who stole stars from the sky. However, having heard the smith, the Forelock decides that got to other hut. The gone astray Forelock, without godfather, decided to come back home because of the blizzard arranged with the devil knocks at the door.

The forelock with the godfather isn't known whether to go in such darkness to the clerk, however decide and left. Noticed by nobody, in the sky two are turned: the witch on a sweeper which gathers stars in a sleeve, and the devil who hides moon in a pocket, thinking that the come darkness will keep houses of the rich Cossack the Chub invited to the clerk on kutia and hated to the devil the smith Vakula (who painted a picture of the Last Judgement and the devil on a church wall) won't dare to come to the Chub's daughter Oksana.

The film is in the public domain in Russia and is widely available on numerous Home video and DVD releases, mostly along with other films.Īction of the animated film happens in Dykanka, in Ukraine. The animation features heavy use of rotoscoping, known as 'Éclair' in the Soviet Union, and is an example of the Socialist-Realist period in Russian animation.

The film is based on Nikolai Gogol's 1832 story ' The Night Before Christmas'. The Night Before Christmas ( Russian: Ночь пе́ред Рождество́м, Noch pered Rozhdestvom) is a 1951 Russian animated feature film directed by the 'grandmothers of the Russian animation', Brumberg sisters, and produced by the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow.

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