The Little Shoes

To justify the fantastic adventures of the blacksmith Vakula the authors of the film simplify Gogols plot Vakula having drunk too much at Patsiuks place falls asleep And he sees this dream where the devil takes him to the palace of Catherine II in SaintPetersburg 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 Patsiuks dirty shoes there