---
title: 'A Night Before Christmas (1961)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Alexander Rou'
released: '1961-12-15'
runtime_minutes: 66
genres:
  - 'Fantasy'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'Soviet Union'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/a-night-before-christmas-1961'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057637/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# A Night Before Christmas (1961)

1961 · 66 min · Fantasy, Romance · Soviet Union

Original title: Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки

## Synopsis

The Night Before Christmas, also known as Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, is a 1961 Soviet fantasy film directed by Aleksandr Rou, based on a "Christmas Eve", first story in the second volume of the 1832 collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Alexander Rou](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexander-rou)
- **Screenplay:** [Alexander Rou](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexander-rou)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Arkady Filippenko](https://cinepixo.com/people/arkady-filippenko)
- **Director of Photography:** [Dmitri Surensky](https://cinepixo.com/people/dmitri-surensky)

## Cast

- [Lyudmyla Myznikova-Belinska](https://cinepixo.com/people/lyudmyla-myznikova-belinska)
- [Mykola Yakovchenko](https://cinepixo.com/people/mykola-yakovchenko)
- [Lyudmila Khityaeva](https://cinepixo.com/people/lyudmila-khityaeva)
- [Alexandr Chvylja](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexandr-chvylja)
- [Anatoly Kubatsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/anatoly-kubatsky)
- [Sergey Martinson](https://cinepixo.com/people/sergey-martinson)
- [Georgy Millyar](https://cinepixo.com/people/georgy-millyar)
- [Aleksandr Radunsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksandr-radunsky)
- [Yuri Tavrov](https://cinepixo.com/people/yuri-tavrov)

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