 It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow and is based on the story with the same name by Nikolai Gogol.The creators of the film managed to report an originality of national Ukrainian color and to recreate the magical, fantastic atmosphere peculiar to works of the writer.Also, for a more realistic style of dance in the Zaporozhets and the Cossack, Igor Moiseyev was involved.