
May Nights
May Nights is a 1952 Soviet 3D fantasy comedy film released by Moscow Gorky Film Studios, directed by Aleksandr Rou and starring Nikolai Dosenko, Tatyana Konyukhova and Aleksandr Khvylya. 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.
Plot
While strolling under the blooming bird cherry tree in the evening, a group of girls encounters an old man and asks him to tell them a story. He agrees and begins recounting an event that took place one May night.
More details
author | Konstantin Isaev |
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director | Alexander Rou |
genre | comedy fantasy |
keywords | black cat drown even flog group of girls lock up married meet old house old man wake up with songs woman drowned young woman |
musicBy | Sergei Pototsky |
productionCompany | Gorky Film Studios |
theme | 3d |