Evenings on a Farm Near Dykanka

Synopsis

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.

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Key crew

• Semen HorovDirector
• Anton FridliandScreenplay

Cast

• Oleh SkrypkaVakula the Blacksmith
• Ani LorakOksana
• Filipp KirkorovThe Devil
• Lolita MilyavskayaSolokha the Witch
• Lidiya Fedoseyeva-ShukshinaCatherine II (Catherine the Great)
• Yurii MazhuhaHolova
• Nadiia MeikherOksana's friend
• Oleksandr PonomarovVakula's friend
• Viktor StepanovPatsiuk
• Anatoliy DyachenkoChub, Oksana's father
• Volodymyr HorianskyiPanas
• Vitalii LinetskyiDiak

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