May Nights

May Nights is a 1952 Soviet 3D 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. 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 Bibliography Rollberg, Peter. Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2008.