May Nights

May Nights (Russian: Майская ночь, или Утопленница, romanized: Maiskaya noch, ili utoplennitsa) is a 1952 Soviet comedy film 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.

May Nights
Directed byAleksandr Rou
Written byNikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (libretto)
Nikolai Gogol (play)
Konstantin Isaev
StarringNikolai Dosenko
Tatyana Konyukhova
Aleksandr Khvylya
Music byS. Potochkii
CinematographyGavriil Egiazarov
Production
company
Release date
1952
Running time
61 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

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
  1. Rollberg p.314

Bibliography
  • Rollberg, Peter. Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2008.


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