The Night Before Christmas (1951 film)

The Night Before Christmas Russian , Noch pered Rozhdestvom is a 1951 Russian feature animated film directed by the grandmothers of the Russian animation, Brumberg sisters, and produced by the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow. The film is based on Nikolai Gogols story The Night Before Christmas. In big degree it was succeeded to present in this screen version of the story of the same name on the screen national color of the Ukrainian village.

Action of the animated film happens in Dykanka, in Ukraine. 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 month 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 wont dare to come to the Chubs daughter Oksana.The forelock with the godfather isnt known whether to go in such darkness to the clerk, however decide and left. The beauty Oksana stays at home. Vakula comes, but Oksana urges on him. The gone astray Forelock, without godfather, decided to come back home because of the blizzard arranged with the devil knocks at the door. However, having heard the smith, the Forelock decides that got to other hut. The forelock goes to Vakulas mother, Solokha who and is that witch who stole stars from the sky. ........

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