The Little Shoes

The Little Shoes (1928)

Fantasy

To justify the fantastic adventures of the blacksmith Vakula, the authors of the film “simplify” Gogol’s plot: Vakula, having drunk too much at Patsiuk’s place, falls asleep. And he sees this dream where the devil takes him to the palace of Catherine II in Saint-Petersburg; and there Vakula takes off the little shoes of the Russian empress to give them to his fiancée Oksana. And, really, drunk Vakula takes off the shoes while sleeping… but from Patsiuk. Later, when Vakula unwraps the package with the “royal slippers” in front of Oksana, he finds only Patsiuk’s dirty shoes there.

Director: Pyotr Chardynin

Casts

	Peter Tsikhomovich as Vakula
	Galina Galina as Oksana
	Anastasii Symonov as Golova
	A. Kharitonov as Chub
	Mykola Nademskyi as Kum
	Stepan Vasyutinskiy as Tkach
	Olga Appak as Tkach's wife
	Anna Goricheva as Solokha
	Dmytro Kapka as The devil
	Volodymyr Lisovskyi as Deacon
	Maria Romanovskaya as Shinkarka
	S. Ardt as Ekaterina II
	I. Korrado as Man of the court
	M. Sheveleva as Lady of the court
	A. Belov as Patsyuk
	Vasyl Liudvynskyi as The boy

Crew