The Night Before Christmas (1951 film)

The Night Before Christmas
Directed by	Valentina Brumberg Zinaida Brumberg
Written by	Zinaida Brumberg Mikhail Yanshin Valentina Brumberg
Starring	Mikhail Yanshin Alexei Zhiltsov Vladimir Gribkov Vera Maretskaya Liliya Gritsenko Nikolai Gritsenko
Music by	Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Editing by	Valentina Ivanova
Release date(s)	1951
Running time	49 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

The Night Before Christmas (Russian: Ночь пе́ред Рождество́м, Noch pered Rozhdestvom) is a 1951 Soviet animated film directed by the Brumberg sisters and produced by the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow. The film is based on Nikolai Gogol's story The Night Before Christmas.

The animation features heavy use of rotoscoping, known as "Éclair" in the Soviet Union, and is an example of the Socialist-Realist period in Russian animation. The film is in the public domain in Russia and is widely available on numerous video/DVD releases, mostly along with other films.

Creators

	English	Russian
Directors	Valentina Brumberg Zinaida Brumberg	Валентина Брумберг Зинаида Брумберг
Scenario	Zinaida Brumberg Mikhail Yanshin Valentina Brumberg	Зинаида Брумберг Михаил Яншин Валентина Брумберг
Art Directors	Nadezhda Stroganova Pyotr Repkin Aleksandr Belyakov	Надежда Строганова Пётр Репкин Александр Беляков
Composer	Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov	Николай Римский-Корсаков
Artists	V. Rodzhero I. Troyanova O. Gemmerling Nikolai Petritskiy K. Malyshev Y. Tannenberg V. Valerianova	В. Роджеро И. Троянова О. Геммерлинг Николай Петрицкий К. Малышев Е. Танненберг В. Валерианова
Animators	Nikolai Fyodorov Roman Kachanov Boris Meyerovich Roman Davydov Y. Kazantseva Faina Yepifanova Yelizaveta Komova I. Bashkova Grigoriy Kozlov K. Nikiforov Tatyana Fyodorova Valentin Lalayants Tatyana Taranovich L. Popov Konstantin Chikin Boris Dezhkin Gennadiy Filippov Boris Butakov Fyodor Khitruk Lidiya Reztsova	Николай Фёдоров Роман Качанов Борис Меерович Роман Давыдов Е. Казанцева Фаина Епифанова Елизавета Комова И. Башкова Григорий Козлов К. Никифоров Татьяна Фёдорова Валентин Лалаянц Татьяна Таранович Л. Попов Константин Чикин Борис Дежкин Геннадий Филиппов Борис Бутаков Фёдор Хитрук Лидия Резцова
Camera Operators	Nikolai Voinov Elena Petrova	Николай Воинов Елена Петрова
Executive Producer	Y. Bliokh	Я. Блиох
Sound Operator	Hikolai Prilutskiy V. Oranskiy	Николай Прилуцкий В. Оранский
Voice Actors	Mikhail Yanshin (Chub, the cossack) Alexei Zhiltsov (village head) Vladimir Gribkov (devil) Vera Maretskaya (Solokha, the witch) Liliya Gritsenko (Oksana) Nikolai Gritsenko (Vakula, the smith)	Михаил Яншин (казак Чуб) Алексей Жильцов (голова) Владимир Грибков (чёрт) Вера Марецкая (ведьма Солоха) Лилия Гриценко (Оксана) Николай Гриценко (кузнец Вакула)
Narrator	Alexei Gribov	Алексей Грибов
Editor	Valentina Ivanova	Валентина Иванова

See also

• History of Russian animation
• List of animated feature films
• The Night Before Christmas (1913 film)

External links

• The Night Before Christmas at the Animator.ru (English and Russian)
• The Night Before Christmas at myltik.ru (Russian)