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SOYUZMULTFILM 1951

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Nikolai V. Gogol

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The Night Before Christmas

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written by Valentina Brumberg, Zinaida Brumberg,
Michael Yanshin, Music : N Rimski-Korsakov
sound V. Oransky, Nikolai Prilutsky

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Directed by Valentina & Zinaida Brumberg

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Art dir D Petritskogo,art directors
Nadezhda Stroganova, Petr Repkin, Alexander
Beliakov, Camera E Petrova

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animators Konstantin Chikin, Boris Dezhkin,
Gennady Filippov, Boris Butakov, Fedor Khitruk,
Lidia Reztsova, N.Fedorov, Roman Kachanov,

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B Meyerovich, R Davydov, Ye Kazantseva, L. Popov
F. Yepifanova,E. Komova, I. Bashkova, K. Nikiforov, 
G. Kozlov, T. Fedorova, T. Taranovich, V. Lalayants, 

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voices N. Gritsenko, Michael Yanshin, A. Zhiltsov,
Vladimir Gribkov, Vera Maretskaya, Lilia Gritsenko
text is read by Alexei Gribov

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Artists Ye Tannenberg, V Valerianova, V Rodgero, I.
Troyanova O Ghemmerling, N Petritsky, K Malyshev
cutter V. Ivanova, executive producer Ya. Bliokh

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The last day before Christmas had passed.

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A wintry, clear night had came.

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Stars had peeped out and the moon
rose majestically in the sky,

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to shine upon good people
and all the world,

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So that everyone could merrily
go caroling and glorify Christ.

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The frost had increased since morning
and it was so still ..,

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that the frosty creaking under a boot
could be heard for half a mile.

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Suddenly smoke curled from the chimney of
one cottage and went in a cloud across the sky.

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and along with the smoke
rose a witch, riding on a broom.

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If the Sorochinsky magistrate
had been passing by just then,

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he would have surely noticed her,
for no witch in the world

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could elude the Sorochinsk magistrate.

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But the Sorochensk magistrate was not passing by,
and then, what business did he have with folk

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other then from his own jurisdiction?.

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The witch, meanwhile, rose so high, that she
was only a little black spot flitting overhead.

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Suddenly from the opposite side
another little spot appeared.

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A near-sighted man, even if he put
wheels on his nose for spectacles.

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wouldn't have made out what it was.

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And yet, just,

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by the goat's beard under his muzzle
and the little horns on his head,

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you might have recognized it was the devil, 

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whom had one last night
to wander about the wide world

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and teach good people to sin.

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In Dikanka nobody realized
that the devil had stolen the moon,

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True, the local scrivener, leaving
the tavern on all fours,

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saw the moon, dancing about in the sky,


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for no reason.

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But what lead the devil
to decide on such lawless business?

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Here's what:...

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he knew that the wealthy Cossack Chub 
was invited to a party by the deacon, 

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And meanwhile his daughter,
the village-beauty, would stay at home,

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and  this daughter, would certainly be visited 
by the blacksmith, a stalwart and fine fellow,

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whom the devil found more disgusting
then father Kondrat's sermons.

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The blacksmith devoted his leisure time to painting
 and was reputed to be the best artist in the district.

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but the triumph of his art was one picture
painted on church wall in the right-hand vestibule,

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in which he portrayed St. Peter 
on the day of the last judgment,

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with the keys in his hands,
driving the evil spirit out of hell.

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Ever since he painted it, the devil...

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...had sworn vengeance on the blacksmith
and for that he decided to steal the moon,

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in the hope that the old Chub,
lazy above all, would remain home

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In such darkness you'd...

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...hardly could drag him
down from the stove to go out.

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And the blacksmith, 
who had long been on bad terms with him,

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would never dare visit his daughter then

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despite all his strength.

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So, Chum, you haven't been 
to the deacon's new house yet?

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There will be a good drinking there tonight!

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We'd better not be late!...

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What the devil!

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- Look, look, Panas ...
- What?

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- How what?
There's no moon!

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What the deuce! 
It's a fact, there's no moon!

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Realy, as if for a joke, I looked 
out of the window on purpose as I sat inside:

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A wonder of a night! 
Clear, snow shining in the moonlight.

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The moment I step out the door - it's pitch-dark!

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So then, Chum, what are we going to do?

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- It's dark out.
- Let's stay home then, if you like!

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No, chum, let's go. It's impossible,

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we have to go!

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Having said that, he was already
annoyed with himself for it,

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He very much disliked dragging himself 
anywhere on such a night, but it comforted him....

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that he himself had purposely wanted it 
and was not doing as he had been advised.

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The frost increased.. to the maximum
It became so cold! ..

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The mother of the blacksmith Vakula
was not more then forty years old,

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Nevertheless, she know so well how to 
charm the gravest of Cossacks over to herself.

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that she was visited by the headman, the deacon
Osip Nikiforovich and the Cossack Korniy Chub.

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Solokha know how to handle them very skillfully. It
never occurred to any of them that they had a rival.

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Maybe this keenness and cunning were responsible 
for the rumors started by the old women.

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that Solokha was in fact a witch.

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As soon as the blizzard arose
and the wind blew sharply in their eyes,

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Chub showed repentance and pulling 
his ear-flapped hat further down,

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treated himself, the devil and the chum to abuse.

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Wait, chum! I don't think this is the right way,

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There is not a single cottage in sight.
Oh, what a storm!

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Go to that side a little, chum,
maybe you'll find the road

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Meanwhile I will seek it on this side!

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Don't forget to holler if you find the road.

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Oh, what a heap of snow 
the devil's thrown into my face!

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The chum went to one side and, 
wandering back and forth in his high boots, 

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finally wandered right into the tavern.

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His find made him so happy 
that he forgot everything and,

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shaking off the snow, he went in, not the least 
concerned about his chum he left outside.

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E-re-re-re-re!

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U-ha-ha-ha-ha!

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He-he-he-he!

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Now let's have a look what the 
beautiful daughter was doing, left alone.

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Oksana had not yet turned 17
but already in almost all the world,

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on this side of Dikanka and on the other,
the talk was of nothing but her.

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Why is it that people 
decided to praise my prettiness?

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People lie, I'm not pretty at all.

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What's so pretty about this upturned nose?

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And these cheeks? and lips?

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I see now that I am not pretty at all!

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No, I am pretty! Ah,how pretty!
A wonder!

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What joy I'll bring to the one
whose wife I become!

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Yes, lads, am I a match for you? Just look at me!

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how smooth my step is!

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My shirt is embroidered with red silk,

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and what ribbons in my hair! ..

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Oh!

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Why have you come here? Do you want
to be driven out the door with a shovel?

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You guys all instantly get wind of it 
when our fathers aren't home!

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- Is my chest finished?
- It will be ready - my dear heart - ...

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...it will be ready after the holiday!

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Do not be angry with me!
Allow me at least to talk,..

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- at least to look at you!
- Who's forbidding you...?

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- Talk and look.
- Allow me to sit down beside you!

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Sit,

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Wonderful, darling Oksana, allow me to kiss you!

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Go away!! Your hands are harder than iron
and you smell of smoke!

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What!?

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Ah, somebody's knocking!

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- It must be the lads and the girls.
- Wait, I'll go and open it myself.

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- What do you want here!?

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Ah, no, it's not my cottage.
The blacksmith would not come to my cottage.

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Again, on closer inspection,
it's not the blacksmith's either!

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- Whose house could it be?
- Who are you?

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...and why are you hanging around the door?

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No, I won't tell him who I am; he may give me 
a thrashing for all I know, the cursed bastard!

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It's me good man, I come to your windows
to sing some carols for your amusement.

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Go to the devil with your carols!
Why are you standing there?

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 Clear out right now, do you hear?

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- Really, why are you shouting so?

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- I want to sing carols, that's all.

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Oh-ho! There's no stopping you with words!

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- So, I see you're already starting to fight!
- Away, away!

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Just you wait, fiendish blacksmith!
May the devil smash up you and your smithy!

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He is not at home now, though...

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I suppose Solokha is sitting there alone. 
Hm ...�why not go there!

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While the nimble fop 
with the tail and the goat's beard

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flew out of the chimney and back into it

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the little pouch that hung at his side,
in which he had put the stolen moon,

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accidentally caught on something 
in the oven and came open,

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The moon seized the opportunity and, 
flying out of the chimney of Solokha's house, 

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rose smoothly into the sky..

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Everything lit up. 
As if there had been no blizzard. 

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The snow gleamed in wide, silvery fields

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and was all sprinkled with crystal stars.

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The frost seemed to grow warmer. 
Songs rang out

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Crowds of lads and girls appeared with sacks.

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Ah, Odarka! you have new booties! 

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Oh, what pretty ones! and with gold!
Ah, Odarka! you have new booties! 

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Oh, what pretty ones! and with gold!

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Don't grieve, my darling Oksana! 
It's a rare young lady who wears such booties 

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as I'll get for you.

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- You?! I'd like to see where you're going to 
get booties such as I could wear on my feet. 

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Unless you bring me the ones the tsaritsa wears.

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See what she wants!

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Yes, you'll all be witnesses: 

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if the blacksmith Vakula brings me 
the very booties the tsaritsa wears, 

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I give my word

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that I'll marry him at once.

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Laugh, laugh! I'm laughing at my own self!

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No, enough, it's time to stop playing the fool.

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knock

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Ah!

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The headman, after shaking the snow off,
said that he had not gone to the deacon's 

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on account of the blizzard,

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and seeing a light in her house, had stopped by, 
intending to spend the evening with her.

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Oh.

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knock

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Open up, dearest Solokha!

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Hide me somewhere, 
I don't want to meet the deacon right now.

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knock

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The deacon came in, 
grunting and rubbing his hands,

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and said that none of his guests had come,

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and that he was heartily glad of this opportunity 

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to sport a little at her place 
and the blizzard did not frighten him.

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And what have you got here, magnificent Solokha?

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How�what? An arm, Osip Nikiforovich!

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Hm! an arm! heh, heh, heh! ...

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And what have you got here, dearest Solokha?

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As if you can't see, Osip Nikiforovich! A neck, 

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and on that neck a necklace.

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Hm! a necklace on the neck! heh, heh, heh!

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And what have you got here, incomparable Solokha?...� 

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knock

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Ah, my God, an extraneous person!

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What now, if someone of my station 
is found here?... 

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For God's sake, virtuous Solokha,

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Your kindness, as it says 
in the Gospel of Luke, chapter 

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thir�th� 

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knock again

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Knocking! By God, there's knocking! 

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Oh, hide me somewhere!

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Oh, oh, oh-e-her!

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Good evening, Solokha! 
Maybe you weren't expecting me, eh? 

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Maybe you've been having fun here with somebody? ... 

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Maybe you've already hidden somebody away, eh?

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Well, Solokha, now give me some vodka.

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I think my throat got frozen in this cursed cold. 

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What a night before Christmas God has sent us! 

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knock

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Open up!

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Somebody's knocking,

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Open up!

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It's the blacksmith!

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Listen, Solokha, put me wherever you like; 

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not for anything in the world do I want 
to show myself to that cursed bastard,

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Oh,help!

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may the devil's son get himself 
blisters as big as haystacks under each eye!

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The poor deacon didn't even dare 
to show his pain by coughing or grunting 

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when the heavy fellow sat almost on his head

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and stuck his frozen boots

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on both sides of his temples.

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Why are these sacks lying here? 

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They should have been taken out long ago. 

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I've grown all befuddled 
on account of this stupid love. 

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Why the devil do these sacks 
seem heavier than before!

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Fool that I am! I forgot 
that everything seems heavier to me now.

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No, what a woman I am! 

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Let it even be ten sacks, I'll lift them all.

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This one, too,

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I think I put my tools in it.

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00:25:26,190 --> 00:25:31,240
Ah, Vakula, you're here! Good evening!

226
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:34,660
So, the booties that the tsaritsa wears, 
did you get them? 

227
00:25:34,660 --> 00:25:38,660
Get me the booties and I'll marry you!

228
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:41,520
Farewell, Oksana! 

229
00:25:42,506 --> 00:25:46,180
Seek whatever suitor you like, 
fool whomever you like; 

230
00:25:46,180 --> 00:25:51,350
but you won't see any more of me in this world.

231
00:25:55,590 --> 00:25:59,590
Where to, Vakula?
- Farewell, brothers!

232
00:25:59,610 --> 00:26:06,780
God willing, we'll see each other in the next world;
but in this one we'll meet no more!

233
00:26:06,780 --> 00:26:10,590
He's cracked in the head!
- A lost soul!

234
00:26:10,590 --> 00:26:15,080
I'll go and tell them 
the blacksmith has hanged himself!

235
00:26:24,380 --> 00:26:27,210
Where am I running, in fact?

236
00:26:27,210 --> 00:26:31,210
as if all is lost. 

237
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:35,920
I'll try one more way: 

238
00:26:36,750 --> 00:26:40,830
I'll go to Paunchy Patsiuk, the Zaporozhets.

239
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:49,150
This fat Padzuck had indeed once
been a Zaporoghian*,
* brotherhood of armed warrior 

240
00:26:49,190 --> 00:26:55,510
but whether he had been driven out 
or had run away on his own, no one knew.

241
00:26:55,520 --> 00:27:04,980
A few days after his arrival in the village, 
everybody already knew he was a wizard.

242
00:27:04,980 --> 00:27:08,980
I've come for your kindness, Patsiuk,

243
00:27:09,430 --> 00:27:15,620
My sinful self is bound to perish! 
nothing in the world helps! 

244
00:27:15,620 --> 00:27:22,720
Come what may, 
I must ask for help from the devil himself. 

245
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:30,460
Well, Patsiuk? what am I to do?
- If it's the devil you need, then go to the devil!

246
00:27:30,460 --> 00:27:36,150
That's why I came to you. Apart from you, I don't 
think anybody in the world knows the way to him.

247
00:27:36,150 --> 00:27:40,150
He needn't go far...,

248
00:27:41,210 --> 00:27:45,210
...who has the devil on his back

249
00:28:22,750 --> 00:28:28,230
It's me, your friend
�I'll do anything for a friend and comrade!

250
00:28:28,330 --> 00:28:32,330
Oksana will be ours today,

251
00:28:35,730 --> 00:28:41,360
Very well,for that price 
I'm ready to be yours!

252
00:28:41,460 --> 00:28:47,660
Well, Vakula! You know, 
nothing is done without a contract.

253
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:52,330
I'm ready! With you, I've heard, 
one has to sign in blood; 

254
00:28:52,420 --> 00:28:56,300
Wait, I'll get a nail from my pocket!

255
00:28:56,370 --> 00:29:00,320
Ah-ah-ah!

256
00:29:01,260 --> 00:29:05,260
Wait, my sweet fellow!

257
00:29:06,810 --> 00:29:12,480
and how will you like this?
- Have mercy, Vakula!

258
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:17,830
I'll do anything you want, anything,
only leave my soul in peace;
don't put the terrible cross on me!

259
00:29:17,910 --> 00:29:22,020
Take me on your back this minute, 
do you hear?

260
00:29:22,020 --> 00:29:26,020
Carry me like a bird!
- Where to?

261
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:30,040
To St. Petersburg, straight to the tsaritsa!

262
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:44,520
For a long time Oksana stood 
pondering the blacksmith's strange words.

263
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:51,080
Something inside her was already 
telling her she had treated him too cruelly.

264
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:55,700
What if he had indeed 
decided on something terrible?

265
00:29:55,700 --> 00:30:02,110
maybe in his sorrow 
he'll fall in love with another girl...

266
00:30:02,110 --> 00:30:08,110
and out of vexation 
call her the first beauty of the village?

267
00:30:08,110 --> 00:30:12,110
But, no, he loves me. 

268
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,730
I'm so pretty! 

269
00:30:15,730 --> 00:30:19,500
He wouldn't trade me for anyone; 

270
00:30:19,620 --> 00:30:25,670
Wait, the blacksmith forgot his sacks. 
Look, what frightful sacks! 

271
00:30:25,670 --> 00:30:27,760
Are those the blacksmith's sacks?

272
00:30:27,870 --> 00:30:31,670
Let's quickly take them to my house 
- But we can't lift them!

273
00:30:31,730 --> 00:30:38,310
Wait! Let's run and fetch a sled, 
we can take them on a sled.

274
00:30:38,700 --> 00:30:43,770
The prisoners were very weary 
of sitting in the sacks

275
00:30:47,270 --> 00:30:51,270
E-he-he-he-he.

276
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:57,670
Look what sacks somebody's left in the road!

277
00:30:57,770 --> 00:31:04,350
There must be pork in them. Somebody's had 
real luck to get so much stuff for his caroling! 

278
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:09,210
I'll take it quick, before anybody sees me.

279
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:19,280
No, it's too heavy to carry alone,

280
00:31:19,990 --> 00:31:24,620
but here, as if on purpose, 
comes the weaver.

281
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:30,120

Please, help me, good man, 
to carry these sacks!

282
00:31:30,220 --> 00:31:34,700
Somebody went caroling and then 
dropped them in the middle of the road. 

283
00:31:34,710 --> 00:31:38,710
We'll divide the goods fifty-fifty.

284
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:49,030
- Where shall we carry them?
- Take them to my place.

285
00:31:50,060 --> 00:31:56,010
No one will be in our way: 
my wife isn't home.

286
00:31:57,390 --> 00:32:01,370
- Who's there?
- What to do now?!

287
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:08,110
Show me this minute! Do you hear? 
Show me your sack right this minute!

288
00:32:08,260 --> 00:32:12,500
The hairy devil can show it to you, not us,

289
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,680
What business is it of yours?
We got it for caroling, not you.

290
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:19,970
No, you're going to show it to me, 
you worthless drunkard!

291
00:32:19,970 --> 00:32:22,800
Help! Help!

292
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:29,050
Eh, there's a whole boar in there!

293
00:32:29,100 --> 00:32:32,560
A boar! do you hear, a whole boar!

294
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:35,310
Away with you! Get out, cursed woman!

295
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:38,800
 It's not your goods

296
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:46,190
Ah, ah!

297
00:32:47,140 --> 00:32:49,760
Oh!

298
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:53,760
E.. well .. ah ..

299
00:32:55,850 --> 00:33:01,950
- This is not a boar!
- See what a man got thrown into the sack!

300
00:33:01,950 --> 00:33:04,380
It's my chum!

301
00:33:04,380 --> 00:33:12,120
And who did you think it was? 
A nice trick I pulled on you, eh? 

302
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:18,680
And you probably wanted to eat me as pork? 

303
00:33:19,330 --> 00:33:22,900
Wait, I've got good news for you: 

304
00:33:22,986 --> 00:33:25,940
there's something else in the sack...

305
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:32,460
- if not a boar, then surely 
a piglet or some other live thing. 

306
00:33:32,630 --> 00:33:37,100
Something's been 
moving under me all the time.

307
00:33:51,310 --> 00:33:57,750
It's the deacon! Well, now! 
That's Solokha for you!

308
00:33:57,850 --> 00:34:04,740
putting us into sacks ... That's why 
she's got a house full of sacks ... 

309
00:34:06,950 --> 00:34:09,890
Now I see it all: 

310
00:34:09,890 --> 00:34:15,260
she had two men sitting in each sack. 

311
00:34:17,340 --> 00:34:21,340
Well, you, Solokha!

312
00:34:25,100 --> 00:34:29,100
No help for it, 
this one will be enough for us

313
00:34:47,590 --> 00:34:51,090
Let's see what's in it!

314
00:34:51,720 --> 00:34:55,120
Ah, somebody's in there!

315
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:59,120
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah!

316
00:34:59,150 --> 00:35:03,100
What the devil! 
Why are you running around like crazy?

317
00:35:03,100 --> 00:35:07,130
Ah, Papa! There's somebody in the sack!

318
00:35:08,770 --> 00:35:12,770
In the sack? 

319
00:35:12,900 --> 00:35:15,220
Where did you get this sack?

320
00:35:15,220 --> 00:35:18,210
The blacksmith left them 
in the middle of the road,

321
00:35:18,210 --> 00:35:22,210
What are you so afraid of then? 
Let's see. 

322
00:35:22,850 --> 00:35:25,590
Now, then, my man, 

323
00:35:25,590 --> 00:35:31,010
never mind if we 
don't call you by your full name

324
00:35:31,010 --> 00:35:34,630
- get out of the sack!

325
00:35:34,630 --> 00:35:38,630
Oh .. oh ..

326
00:35:38,820 --> 00:35:42,420
Phew!

327
00:35:42,420 --> 00:35:45,220
Oh!

328
00:35:45,220 --> 00:35:48,830
The headman was in it, too, fancy that!... 

329
00:35:48,830 --> 00:35:54,660
Uh .. 
- Must be cold out?

330
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,720
A bit nippy

331
00:36:04,630 --> 00:36:10,050
And, if I may ask, 
what do you grease your boots with, 

332
00:36:10,050 --> 00:36:14,050
mutton fat or tar?

333
00:36:14,110 --> 00:36:18,110
Tar's better!

334
00:36:19,100 --> 00:36:23,100
Well, goodbye, Chub.

335
00:36:25,260 --> 00:36:30,640
Why did I ask so stupidly 
what he greases his boots with!

336
00:36:30,930 --> 00:36:37,330
That's Solokha! 
putting such a man into a sack!... 

337
00:36:37,350 --> 00:36:40,580
A devil of a woman! 

338
00:36:40,580 --> 00:36:44,580
Fool that I am ... 

339
00:36:46,690 --> 00:36:55,700
At first Vakula found it frightening 
when he rose to such a height 

340
00:36:55,990 --> 00:36:59,680
that he could see nothing below

341
00:37:00,150 --> 00:37:10,170
The air was transparent, all in a light silvery mist.
Everything was visible;  

342
00:37:10,170 --> 00:37:19,530
and he could even observe how a sorcerer, 
sitting in a pot, raced past them like the wind;

343
00:37:19,930 --> 00:37:25,330
how the stars gathered together 
to play blindman's buff;

344
00:37:25,330 --> 00:37:31,760
how a devil dancing around the moon took 
his hat off on seeing the mounted blacksmith

345
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:35,940
how a broom came flying back,

346
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:41,460
having just served some witch ... 

347
00:37:42,460 --> 00:37:50,780
The blacksmith flew on, and suddenly 
Petersburg, all ablaze, glittered before him.

348
00:38:31,970 --> 00:38:36,110
My God! the clatter, the thunder, the glitter;

349
00:38:41,460 --> 00:38:46,220
Shall we go straight to the tsaritsa?
- No, it's scary

350
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:53,700
The Zaporozhtsy who passed through Dikanka 
in the fall are staying here somewhere. 

351
00:38:53,700 --> 00:38:57,320
I'd better talk it over with them.

352
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:02,700
Hey, little Satan, get in my pocket 
and lead me to the Zaporozhtsy

353
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:21,453
- Good day, gentlemen! God be with you! 

354
00:39:21,506 --> 00:39:25,200
We'll talk more with you later, landsman;

355
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:28,600
right now we're on our way to the tsaritsa.

356
00:39:28,670 --> 00:39:34,150
To the tsaritsa? Be so kind, 
masters, as to take me with you!

357
00:39:34,220 --> 00:39:38,860
You? What will you do there?

358
00:39:40,540 --> 00:39:43,290
No, impossible.

359
00:39:43,890 --> 00:39:49,220
We, brother, are going to discuss 
our own affairs with the tsaritsa.

360
00:39:49,290 --> 00:39:53,390
Take me!
Beg them!

361
00:40:01,590 --> 00:40:04,930
Let's take him, brothers!

362
00:40:06,430 --> 00:40:11,070
All right, let's take him!

363
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:27,070
My God, what light! 
Back home it's not so bright at noontime.

364
00:40:45,150 --> 00:40:50,790
What a stairway! 
It's a pity to trample it underfoot. 

365
00:40:51,460 --> 00:40:54,520
Such ornaments! 

366
00:40:54,590 --> 00:40:57,840
My God, what a banister! 

367
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:03,930
Such workmanship! 
It's fifty roubles' worth of iron alone.

368
00:41:08,970 --> 00:41:12,970
What a painting! 

369
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:18,120
what wonderful art!

370
00:41:18,866 --> 00:41:21,546
Oh, my God, what colors! 

371
00:41:21,590 --> 00:41:27,690
I bet there's not a kopeck's worth of ochre; 
it's all verdigris and crimson.

372
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:09,140
What, then, do you want?
- Now's the time! The tsaritsa is asking what we want!

373
00:42:09,140 --> 00:42:13,490
Your Imperial Majesty, 
punish me not, but grant me mercy! 

374
00:42:13,550 --> 00:42:14,860
Please tell me

375
00:42:14,860 --> 00:42:20,230
Meaning no offense to Your Imperial Grace, 

376
00:42:20,230 --> 00:42:24,300
but what are the booties you're wearing made of?

377
00:42:24,300 --> 00:42:30,950
My God, if only my wife could wear such booties!

378
00:42:31,050 --> 00:42:33,300
Ha-ha-ha-ha ..

379
00:42:33,660 --> 00:42:40,560
Get up! If you want so much 
to have such shoes, it's not hard to do. 

380
00:42:40,570 --> 00:42:45,420
Bring him my most expensive shoes at once, 
the ones with gold! 

381
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:49,720
Truly, this simple-heartedness 
pleases me very much! 

382
00:42:52,810 --> 00:42:57,210
My God, what an adornment!

383
00:43:42,890 --> 00:43:44,720
Ku-ka-re-ku

384
00:43:44,720 --> 00:43:46,410
Where are you going?

385
00:43:46,470 --> 00:43:50,570
Hold on! Wait, friend, that's not all

386
00:43:51,170 --> 00:43:55,170
- I haven't thanked you yet.

387
00:44:30,930 --> 00:44:34,790
Have mercy, father! Don't be angry!

388
00:44:34,790 --> 00:44:40,370
Here's a whip for you: 
beat me as much as your soul desires,

389
00:44:47,370 --> 00:44:51,210
Well, that's enough for you, get up!

390
00:44:51,210 --> 00:44:55,920
So, tell me now, what do you want?

391
00:44:55,980 --> 00:44:59,980
Give me Oksana for my wife, father!

392
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:03,940
Choub thought a little, 
looked at the hat and belt; 

393
00:45:03,940 --> 00:45:07,690
it was a wonderful hat 
and the belt was no worse;

394
00:45:07,690 --> 00:45:10,910
He remembered the perfidious Solokha
and said resolutely:

395
00:45:10,910 --> 00:45:14,910
Right-o! Send the matchmakers!

396
00:45:16,700 --> 00:45:20,650
Oh!

397
00:45:20,650 --> 00:45:24,480
Look, what booties I've brought you!

398
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:27,330
The very ones the tsaritsa wears!

399
00:45:27,330 --> 00:45:31,330
No! no! I don't need any booties!

400
00:45:32,030 --> 00:45:36,030
Even without the booties, I ...

401
00:45:43,770 --> 00:45:48,570
Subs by Eus after Russian subs &
a translation of the original story
by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky

402
00:45:53,230 --> 00:45:57,590
The end