Evenings on a Farm Near Dykanka (2001)
In the remote Ukrainian village of Dykanka, handsome but poor Vakula loves the beautiful Oksana, but she's holding out for a wealthy prince, and her father doesn't think much of him either. On Christmas Eve she sends him on a ridiculous quest for dancing shoes that takes him all the way to the imperial palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia, with the help of some odd characters from the village and the Devil himself.
Director:
Semen Horov
Writer:
Anton Fridliand
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Oleh Skrypka as Vakula the Blacksmith |
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Ani Lorak as Oksana |
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Filipp Kirkorov as The Devil |
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Lolita Milyavskaya as Solokha the Witch |
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Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina as Catherine II (Catherine the Great) |
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Yurii Mazhuha as Holova |
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Nadiia Meikher as Oksana's friend |
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Oleksandr Ponomarov as Vakula's friend |
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Viktor Stepanov as Patsiuk |
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Anatoliy Dyachenko as Chub, Oksana's father |
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Volodymyr Horianskyi as Panas |
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Vitalii Linetskyi as Diak |
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Georgiy Drozd as Prince Potemkin |
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Andrii Danylko as the village moonshiner |
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Olha Sumska as the village gossip girl |
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Taisiya Povaliy as princess |
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Viktor Tsekalo as Sverbyhuz |
| Directing | Semen Horov | Director |
| Writing | Vladyslav Riashyn | Idea |
| Writing | Semen Horov | Idea |
| Production | Тарас Гавриляк | Executive Producer |
| Production | Ольга Менська | Producer |
| Production | Сергій Амелічев | Producer |
| Production | Vladyslav Riashyn | Producer |
| Production | Олександр Зінченко | Producer |
| Writing | Nikolai Gogol | Novel |
| Writing | Anton Fridliand | Screenplay |
| Art | Oleksii Levchenko | Production Design |
| Sound | Konstantin Meladze | Music |
| Art | Mykhailo Levchenko | Production Design |
| Sound | Lyubov Tselmer | Sound Director |