Film

The Little Shoes

1928 · 1h 20m · Fantasy

To justify the fantastic adventures of the blacksmith Vakula, the authors of the film “simplify” Gogol’s plot: Vakula, having drunk too much at Patsiuk’s place, falls asleep. And he sees this dream where the devil takes him to the palace of Catherine II in Saint-Petersburg; and there Vakula takes off the little shoes of the Russian empress to give them to his fiancée Oksana. And, really, drunk Vakula takes off the shoes while sleeping… but from Patsiuk. Later, when Vakula unwraps the package with the “royal slippers” in front of Oksana, he finds only Patsiuk’s dirty shoes there.

Pyotr Tsimokhovich

Vakula

Galina Galina

Oksana

Anastasii Symonov

Golova

A. Kharitonov

Chub

Mykola Nademskyi

Kum

Stepan Vasyutinskiy

Tkach

Olga Appak

Tkach's wife

Anna Goricheva

Solokha

Dmytro Kapka

The devil

Volodymyr Lisovskyi

Deacon

Maria Romanovskaya

Shinkarka

S. Ardt

Ekaterina II

I. Korrado

Man of the court

M. Sheveleva

Lady of the court

A. Belov

Patsyuk

Vasyl Liudvynskyi

The boy

• Pyotr ChardyninDirector
• Lyubov GurevichWriter
• Nikolai GogolStory
• Boris ZavelevDirector of Photography

Release date

February 13, 1928

Status

Released

Original language

Ukrainian

Runtime

1h 20m

Genres

Fantasy