

The first Soviet cel-animated feature film, based on the story with the same name by Nikolai Gogol. 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.

Mikhail Yanshin
Cossack Vasil (voice)

Boris Livanov
Dnieper cossack (voice)

Sergei Martinson
Witch (voice)

Leonid Pirogov
clerk (voice)

Vasiliy Kachalov
Narrator (voice)
Zinaida Brumberg
Valentina Brumberg, Zinaida Brumberg, Zinoviy Kalik
Released