The Night Before Christmas
About The Night Before Christmas
On Christmas Eve, in Gogol's story, the blacksmith who is the town witch's son wants an honest marriage. The woman he wants asks for shoes fine enough for the tsarina. A devil is caught and made to do the smith's errand.
Cast & crew
More about The Night Before Christmas
Ladislas Starevich wrote, directed, and photographed it. Unlike most of his films, this one is mainly live action. It follows Nikolai Gogol's 1832 tale of the same name. The Russian title is Ночь перед Рождеством.
Themes
Look
Starevich photographed the live-action fantasy himself.
Preservation
A Commons transfer of the 1913 film is online.
Notes
- Ivan Mozzhukhin leads the cast. Olga Obolenskaya, Lidiya Tridenskaya, and Petr Lopukhin are billed.
Scenes
- The devil is trapped into serving the smith.
- The errand is a pair of shoes fit for the tsarina.
Influenced by
- The Night Before Christmas (Nikolai Gogol, 1832)
