Noch pered Rozhdestvom

19131913
41m

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6.2/10

293

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Short Comedy Fantasy

Based on Gogol's story: It's Christmas Eve, and everyone in the village has plans. The devil and the witch Solokha are looking for ways of causing mischief. Chub the Cossack just wants some ... Read allBased on Gogol's story: It's Christmas Eve, and everyone in the village has plans. The devil and the witch Solokha are looking for ways of causing mischief. Chub the Cossack just wants some vodka. Solokha's son, Vakula the smith, wants to court Chub's charming daughter Oksana, wh... Read allBased on Gogol's story: It's Christmas Eve, and everyone in the village has plans. The devil and the witch Solokha are looking for ways of causing mischief. Chub the Cossack just wants some vodka. Solokha's son, Vakula the smith, wants to court Chub's charming daughter Oksana, who sets him on a quest: if Vakula will bring her the tsaritsa's shoes, Oksana will marry hi... Read all

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6.2/10

293

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- Wladyslaw Starewicz
- Nikolay Gogol(short story)
- Wladyslaw Starewicz(script)
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Ivan Mozzhukhin in Noch pered Rozhdestvom (1913)

Petr Lopukhin and Olga Obolenskaya in Noch pered Rozhdestvom (1913)

Petr Lopukhin and Ivan Mozzhukhin in Noch pered Rozhdestvom (1913)

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Ivan Mozzhukhin

Devil
(as Ivan Mosjoukine)

Olga Obolenskaya

Oksana

Lidiya Tridenskaya

Solokha

Petr Lopukhin

Vakula
(as P. Laphukin)

Aleksandr Kheruvimov

Golova

Pavel Knorr

Chub

S. Sorin

- Wladyslaw Starewicz
- Nikolay Gogol(short story)
- Wladyslaw Starewicz(script)
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5/10

Starewicz goes the Gogol route

I had never heard of Nikolai Gogol's work "Christmas Eve" before watching Wladyslaw Starewicz's "Noch pered Rozhdestvom" (translated both as "Christmas Eve" and "The Night Before Christmas"). Starewicz's only live-action work is nice, brief entertainment, as a series of wacky things take place in a Ukrainian village on December 24: a demon and a witch make mischief, some Cossacks get drunk, and a smith woos a hot young woman.

Starewicz's shorts - most of them consisting of stop-motion animation - are the only examples of pre-revolutionary Russian cinema that I've seen. If there's more I'd love to see it. In the meantime, this short is nothing special, but OK. I guess that Starewicz was more comfortable with animation. Certainly entertaining, at the least.

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