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The Night Before Christmas (1951 film)
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The Night Before Christmas is a 1951 Soviet animated film directed by the Brumberg sisters and produced by the Soyuzmultfilm
studio in Moscow. The film is based on Nikolai Gogol
's story The Night Before Christmas
.
The animation features heavy use of rotoscoping, known as "Éclair" in the Soviet Union, and is an example of the Socialist-Realist period in Russian animation. The film is in the public domain
in Russia and is widely available on numerous video/DVD releases, mostly along with other films.
Soyuzmultfilm
Soyuzmultfilm is a Russian animation studio based in Moscow. Over the years it has gained international attention and respect, garnering numerous awards both at home and abroad. Noted for a great variety of style, it is regarded as the most influential animation studio of the former Soviet Union...
studio in Moscow. The film is based on Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist.Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism...
's story The Night Before Christmas
Christmas Eve (Gogol)
Christmas Eve , literally translated The Night Before Christmas, is the first story in the second volume of the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol.-Plot:...
.
The animation features heavy use of rotoscoping, known as "Éclair" in the Soviet Union, and is an example of the Socialist-Realist period in Russian animation. The film is in the public domain
Public domain
Works are in the public domain if the intellectual property rights have expired, if the intellectual property rights are forfeited, or if they are not covered by intellectual property rights at all...
in Russia and is widely available on numerous video/DVD releases, mostly along with other films.
Creators
| English | Russian | |
|---|---|---|
| Directors | Valentina Brumberg Zinaida Brumberg |
Валентина Брумберг Зинаида Брумберг |
| Scenario | Zinaida Brumberg Mikhail Yanshin Valentina Brumberg |
Зинаида Брумберг Михаил Яншин Валентина Брумберг |
| Art Directors | Nadezhda Stroganova Pyotr Repkin Aleksandr Belyakov Aleksandr Belyakov Aleksandr Belyakov was a Soviet luger who competed in the mid 1980s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won the silver medal in the men's doubles event at Sarajevo in 1984.... |
Надежда Строганова Пётр Репкин Александр Беляков |
| Composer | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five.The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful or The Mighty Coterie, refers to a circle of composers who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the years 1856–1870: Mily Balakirev , César... |
Николай Римский-Корсаков |
| Artists | V. Rodzhero I. Troyanova O. Gemmerling Nikolai Petritskiy K. Malyshev Y. Tannenberg V. Valerianova |
В. Роджеро И. Троянова О. Геммерлинг Николай Петрицкий К. Малышев Е. Танненберг В. Валерианова |
| Animators | Nikolai Fyodorov Nikolay Petrovich Fyodorov Nikolay Petrovich Fyodorov was an animator at Soyuzmultfilm from the 1930s to the 1980s and director of a number of films in the 1950s and 1960s. He was co-director of the famous 1957 animated feature The Snow Queen.... Roman Kachanov Roman Abelevich Kachanov Roman Abelevich Kachanov was a Russian animator, one of the founders and leaders of Russian stop-motion animation.Kachanov was the director and screenwriter of the trilogy about Cheburashka, Gena the Crocodile and Shapoklyak.- Early years :... Boris Meyerovich Roman Davydov Y. Kazantseva Faina Yepifanova Yelizaveta Komova I. Bashkova Grigoriy Kozlov K. Nikiforov Tatyana Fyodorova Valentin Lalayants Tatyana Taranovich L. Popov Konstantin Chikin Boris Dezhkin Gennadiy Filippov Boris Butakov Fyodor Khitruk Fyodor Khitruk Fyodor Savelyevich Khitruk is one of the most influential animators and animation directors in Russian animation.-Biography:Khitruk was born in Tver, Russian Empire and came to Moscow to study graphic design at the OGIS College for Applied Arts. He graduated in 1936 and started to work with... Lidiya Reztsova |
Николай Фёдоров Роман Качанов Борис Меерович Роман Давыдов Е. Казанцева Фаина Епифанова Елизавета Комова И. Башкова Григорий Козлов К. Никифоров Татьяна Фёдорова Валентин Лалаянц Татьяна Таранович Л. Попов Константин Чикин Борис Дежкин Геннадий Филиппов Борис Бутаков Фёдор Хитрук Лидия Резцова |
| Camera Operators | Nikolai Voinov Elena Petrova Elena Petrová Elena Petrová, née Krupková was a Czech composer. She was born in Modrý Kameň, and studied piano with Karel Hoffmeister and composition with Jan Kapr and Miloslav Istvan at the Janáček Academy of Music... |
Николай Воинов Елена Петрова |
| Executive Producer | Y. Bliokh | Я. Блиох |
| Sound Operator | Hikolai Prilutskiy V. Oranskiy |
Николай Прилуцкий В. Оранский |
| Voice Actors | Mikhail Yanshin (Chub, the cossack) Alexei Zhiltsov (village head) Vladimir Gribkov (devil) Vera Maretskaya Vera Maretskaya Vera Petrovna Maretskaya was a Russian actress.-Early years:Vera Petrovna Maretskaya was born on July 31, 1906, in Barvikha, a suburb of Moscow. Young Maretskaya helped her father, named Petr Maretsky, who was a candy bar vendor at Moscow Circus... (Solokha, the witch) Liliya Gritsenko (Oksana) Nikolai Gritsenko Nikolai Gritsenko Nikolai Olimpievich Gritsenko was a Soviet actor of Russian-Ukrainian heritage. He appeared in 33 films between 1942 and 1978. Gritsenko also was member of the Vakhtangov Theatre company in Moscow, Russia. There he was designated Honorable actor of Russia and People's Actor of the USSR... (Vakula, the smith) |
Михаил Яншин (казак Чуб) Алексей Жильцов (голова) Владимир Грибков (чёрт) Вера Марецкая (ведьма Солоха) Лилия Гриценко (Оксана) Николай Гриценко (кузнец Вакула) |
| Narrator | Alexei Gribov | Алексей Грибов |
| Editor | Valentina Ivanova Valentina Ivanova Valentina Ivanova is a retired female discus thrower from Russia, who competed in the discus contest at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There she ended up in 24th place . Ivanova set her personal best in the women's discus throw event on 2001-01-27 in... |
Валентина Иванова |
See also
- History of Russian animationHistory of Russian animationThe History of Russian animation is very rich, but is so far a nearly unexplored field for Western film theory and history. As most of Russia's production of animation for film|cinema and television was created during Soviet times, it may also be referred to as the History of Soviet...
- List of animated feature films
- The Night Before Christmas (1913 film)The Night Before Christmas (1913 film)The Night Before Christmas is a 1913 silent film made in the Russian Empire by Ladislas Starevich, based on the tale of the same name by Nikolai Gogol...
External links
- The Night Before Christmas at the Animator.ruAnimator.ruAnimator.ru is a Russian website chronicling the films, people and studios of the animation industry in Russia, the former Soviet Union and the CIS. It also includes a forum, a news block, a photo-gallery and an animators labour exchange...
(English and Russian) - The Night Before Christmas at myltik.ru (Russian)