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.
as Vakula
as Oksana
as Golova
as Chub
as Kum
as Tkach
as Tkach's wife
as Solokha
as The devil
as Deacon
as Shinkarka
as Ekaterina II
as Man of the court
as Lady of the court
as Patsyuk
as The boy
