The Night Before Christmas (film)
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German title | The night before Christmas |
Original title | Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки (Wetschera na chutore blis Dikanki) |
Country of production | Soviet Union |
original language | Russian |
Publishing year | 1962 |
length | 61 minutes |
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Director | Alexander Rou |
script | Alexander Rou |
production | Film studio Maxim Gorky Moscow |
music | Arkadi Filippenko |
camera | Dmitri Surensky |
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The night before Christmas (Original title: Russian Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки , Wetschera na chutore blis Dikanki ) is a Soviet fairy tale film by Alexander Rou from 1962, which follows the story of the same name by Nikolai Gogol .
action
On the night before Christmas, the capable blacksmith Wakula wants to win the heart of the beautiful Oxana, but the snooty one only mocks him and explains that she will only take him as a husband if he brings her the same shoes as the tsarina . The offended Wakula then gets involved with the devil , whom he uses a beating to force him to fly to St. Petersburg . Once there, he dares to ask the Tsarina in an audience what her shoes are made of, since he wants to give his bride some for the wedding. Delighted by his loyalty, the tsarina gives him her shoes, with which Wakula immediately goes back to his village. Meanwhile in the village it was assumed that the blacksmith had committed suicide, and so the sad Oxana, who regrets her earlier behavior, is overjoyed when the capable Wakula stands before her again for a marriage.
publication
The night before Christmas hit Soviet cinemas on January 8, 1962 . On December 21, 1962, the film was broadcast for the first time on the first program of East German television.
synchronization
The synchronization was carried out by the DEFA studio for synchronization in the Leipzig studio. Sophie Schirmeister was responsible for the dramaturgy, Annette wrote the dialogue for you and Thomas Ruttmann took over the direction .
actor | role | German speaker |
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Alexander Chwylja | Tschub | Heinz Suhr |
Lyudmila Mysnikova | Oxana | Liane Düsterhöft |
Yuri Tavrov | Blacksmith Wakula | Georg Solga |
Lyudmila Chitjaeva | Solocha | Erika Krause-Ernst |
Sergei Martinson | Sexton Ossip Nikiforovich | Johannes Curth |
Anatoly Kubazki | Godfather Panas | Fredy Roth |
M. Sidorchuk | Odarka | Otti planner |
Alexander Radunski | Community elder | Alfred Schieske |
Georgi Milljar | devil | Jochen Pape |
Web links
- The night before Christmas in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The night before Christmas in the online film database
- The night before Christmas on kino-teatr.ru (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the publication on kino-teatr.ru , accessed on December 9, 2017
- ↑ The night before Christmas. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 9, 2017 .