--- title: 'The Night Before Christmas (1951)' type: 'film' director: 'Zinaida Brumberg' released: '1951-01-01' runtime_minutes: 50 genres: - 'Fantasy' - 'Comedy' countries: - 'Soviet Union' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-night-before-christmas-1951' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1550321/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Night Before Christmas (1951) 1951 · 50 min · Fantasy, Comedy · Soviet Union Original title: Ночь перед Рождеством ## Synopsis The Night Before Christmas is a 1951 Russian animated feature 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 Gogol's 1832 story "The Night Before Christmas". ## Credits - **Director:** [Zinaida Brumberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/zinaida-brumberg), [Valentina Brumberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/valentina-brumberg) - **Screenplay:** [Zinaida Brumberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/zinaida-brumberg), [Valentina Brumberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/valentina-brumberg), [Mikhail Yanshin](https://cinepixo.com/people/mikhail-yanshin) - **Original Music Composer:** [Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov](https://cinepixo.com/people/nikolai-rimsky-korsakov) - **Director of Photography:** [Nikolay Voinov](https://cinepixo.com/people/nikolay-voinov), [Elena Petrova](https://cinepixo.com/people/elena-petrova) ## Cast - [Alexey Gribov](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexey-gribov) - [Nikolai Gritsenko](https://cinepixo.com/people/nikolai-gritsenko) - [Vladimir Gribkov](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-gribkov) - [Vera Maretskaya](https://cinepixo.com/people/vera-maretskaya) - [Liliya Gritsenko](https://cinepixo.com/people/liliya-gritsenko) - [Aleksey Zhiltsov](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksey-zhiltsov) - [Mikhail Yanshin](https://cinepixo.com/people/mikhail-yanshin) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-night-before-christmas-1951 Film facts: Wikidata (Q7754064); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.