Based on the works of Nikolay Gogol. Handsome blacksmith Vakula who fell in love with village beauty, Oksana, is ready to do anything for her liking. Even to fly on the devil's back to Saint-Petersburg and ask the Empress for the slippers that he can present his sweetheart.
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| Visual Effects | Fyodor Khitruk | Animation |
| Writing | Zinaida Brumberg | Screenplay |
| Directing | Valentina Brumberg | Director |
| Writing | Valentina Brumberg | Screenplay |
| Writing | Mikhail Yanshin | Writer |
| Writing | Nikolai Gogol | Writer |
| Directing | Zinaida Brumberg | Director |
| Camera | Elena Petrova | Director of Photography |
| Art | Pyotr Repkin | Art Direction |
| Art | Aleksandr Belyakov | Art Direction |
| Art | Nadezhda Stroganova | Art Direction |
| Camera | Nikolay Voinov | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | Music |
| Sound | Viktor Oranskiy | Music Editor |
| Sound | Nikolay Prilutskiy | Sound Director |
| Art | Anatoliy Petritskiy | Graphic Designer |
| Visual Effects | Nikolay Fyodorov | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Tatyana Fyodorova | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Lev Popov | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Lidiya Reztsova | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Boris Dyozhkin | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Boris Butakov | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Valentin Lalayants | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Konstantin Chikin | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Faina Epifanova | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Konstantin Nikiforov | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Gennadiy Filippov | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Roman Davydov | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Grigoriy Kozlov | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Roman Kachanov | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Elizaveta Komova | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Tatyana Taranovich | Animation |
| Visual Effects | I. Bashkova | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Boris Meerovich | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Elizaveta Kazantseva | Animation |
| Art | Vera Valeryanova | Background Designer |
| Art | Olga Gemmerling | Background Designer |
| Art | Irina Troyanova | Background Designer |
| Art | Konstantin Malyshev | Background Designer |
| Art | Vera Rodzhero | Background Designer |
| Art | Elena Tannenberg | Background Designer |
| Art | Lana Azarkh | Assistant Art Director |
| Art | Leonid Aristov | Assistant Art Director |
| Directing | Tatyana Fyodorova | Assistant Director |
| Directing | G. Brodskaya | Assistant Director |
| Editing | Valentina Ivanova | Editor |
| Production | Yakov Bliokh | Producer |
