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May Nights
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Wikipedia article
'May Nights' is a 1952 Soviet 3D comedy film released by Moscow Gorky Film Studios, directed by Aleksandr Rou and starring Nikolai Dosenko, Tatyana Konyukhova and Aleksandr Khvylya.Rollberg p.314 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
Bibliography
* Rollberg, Peter. 'Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema'. Scarecrow Press, 2008.
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