Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka
Dec 15 1961
•1h 6m
•Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
The story that happened on the farm near Dikanka on the night before Christmas, when the village blacksmith Vakula, having saddled the Devil, brought to his beloved Oksana, the daughter of a rich Cossack Chub, queen's "сherevichki"(the little women shoes) from the capital — St. Petersburg.
Cast
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Aleksandr Khvylya
Chub
Lyudmila Myznikova
Oksana
Yuri Tavrov
Vakula
Lyudmila Khityaeva
Solokha
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