May Nights
1952 Soviet Union film
- 1952 (1952)
Running time
May Nights (Russian: Майская ночь, или Утопленница, romanized: Maiskaya noch, ili utoplennitsa) is a 1952 Soviet 3D fantasy comedy film released by Moscow Gorky Film Studios, directed by Aleksandr Rou and starring Nikolai Dosenko, Tatyana Konyukhova and Aleksandr Khvylya.[1] It is based on Nikolai Gogol's May Night, or the Drowned Maiden and the subsequent opera version by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. It was directed by Alexander Rowe. The film is notable for being the first full-length autostereoscopic film in colour.
Cast
- Nikolai Dosenko as Levko Makogonenko
- Tatyana Konyukhova as Hanna Petrichenkova
- Aleksandr Khvylya as Evtukh Makogonenko, village leader
- Liliya Yudina as The Officer's Daughter
- Galina Grigoreva as The Witch-Stepmother
- Georgiy Millyar as The Village Clerk
- E. Cheoarskaya as Evtukh's Sister-in-law
- Aleksandr Zhukov as Karpo, a villager
- G. Nelidov as A Beekeeper
- Anton Dunajsky as A Distiller
- Vasili Bokarev
- Georgi Gumilevsky
References
- ^ Rollberg p.314
Bibliography
- Rollberg, Peter. Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2008.
- ""Mayskaya Noch "". National Film Register. Ministry of Culture of the Russian Федерации. Archived from the original on 2018-10-27. Retrieved 2013-07-24.
- ""Mayskaya Noch "". Movies. domestic Encyclopedia кино. Archived from the original on 2013-07-24. Retrieved 2013-07-24.
External links
- May Nights at IMDb
- v
- t
- e
Films by Alexander Rou
- Wish upon a Pike (1938)
- Vasilisa the Beautiful (1940)
- The Little Humpbacked Horse (1941)
- Kashchey the Immortal (1944)
- May Nights (1952)
- The Secret of Mountain Lake (1954)
- New Adventures of Puss in the Boots (1958)
- The Magic Weaver (1960)
- Cinderella (1960)
- The Night Before Christmas (1961)
- Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors (1963)
- Jack Frost (1964)
- Fire, Water, and Brass Pipes (1968)
- Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair (1969)
- The Golden Horns (1973)