Plot synopsis

A film adaptation of N.V. Gogol's story of the same name.

A messenger is tasked with delivering a letter to the Tsarina, which he tucks into his hat for safekeeping on the road. While resting at night, a band of demons steals the hat, and he must travel to Hell to retrieve it.

By hot August, to the tsarina, with a hetman deed send in the capital of cossack. On a road he leads an acquaintance with the rakish Zaporozhian cossack. On a halt a new friend told that sold the soul to the devil and waits atonement. At night a cossack did not become lies down to sleep, decided to look that will be farther. As grew dark, a devil came into place of halt, led away a horse, and with her and tsar's deed. It had to the messenger to search a loss in the forest overwhelmed with impure force.

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Selected in the following festivals or events :

- Animated films produced during the Great Patriotic War, (kinoglaz.fr), 2025

- Russian or Soviet animated films (1906-1991), (kinoglaz.fr), 2023

- Animated film directors. Russia-USSR 1906-1991, (kinoglaz.fr), 2023

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