What is The Night Before Christmas (1961 movie)?
{{italictitle}} {{Infobox film | name = The Night Before Christmas | image = | image_size = | caption = | director = [[Aleksandr Rou]] | producer = | writer = Aleksandr Rou | based_on = {{based on|''[[Christmas Eve (Gogol)|Christmas Eve]]''|[[Nikolai Gogol]]}} | starring = [[Alexander Khvylya]]<br />Lyudmila Myznikova<br />[[Yuri Tavrov]]<br />[[Lyudmila Khityaeva]]<br />[[Sergey Martinson]]<br />[[Anatoly Kubatsky]]<br />[[Georgy Millyar]] | music = [[Arkadi Filippenko]] | cinematography = [[Dmitri Surensky]] | editing = [[Kseniya Blinova]] | studio = [[Gorky Film Studio]] | distributor = | released = {{film date|1961|12}} | runtime = 69 minutes | country = [[Soviet Union]] | language = Russian | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Night Before Christmas''''' ({{lang-ru|Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки}}) is a 1961 Soviet [[fantasy]] movie directed by Aleksandr Rou.<ref>[https://www.afisha.ru/movie/166089/ Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки]</ref><ref>[https://tass.ru/kultura/9207953 Путин и Мишустин поздравили актрису Людмилу Хитяеву с юбилеем]</ref> It stars [[Aleksandr Khvylya]], [[Lyudmyla Myznikova]], and [[Yuri Tavrov]]. == Actors == *[[Aleksandr Khvylya]] as Chub *[[Lyudmyla Myznikova]] as Oksana *[[Yuri Tavrov]] as Vakula *[[Lyudmila Khityaeva]] as Solokha *[[Sergei Martinson]] as Osip, the Sacristan *[[Anatoly Kubatsky]] as Panas == References == {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * {{IMDb title|tt0057637|The Night Before Christmas}} {{movie-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Night Before Christmas}} [[Category:Soviet romance movies]] [[Category:Soviet comedy movies]] [[Category:Soviet fantasy movies]] [[Category:Christmas movies]] [[Category:1961 romantic comedy movies]] [[Category:1960s family movies]] [[Category:1961 fantasy movies]] [[Category:Movies set in Ukraine]] [[Category:Movies set in the 1770s]] [[Category:Movies directed by Aleksandr Rou]]