May Nights

May Nights (Russian: Майская ночь, или Утопленница, romanized: Maiskaya noch, ili utoplennitsa) is a 1952 Soviet 3D fantasy comedy film released by Moscow Gorky Film Studios, directed by Aleksandr Rou and starring Nikolai Dosenko, Tatyana Konyukhova and Aleksandr Khvylya.

While strolling under the blooming bird cherry tree in the evening, a group of girls encounters an old man and asks him to tell them a story.

On the first night, the witch transformed into a black cat and attempted to kill the nobleman's daughter, but the girl struck her left hand.

In his dream, he sees the young woman in the window of the old house, and she asks him to find her witch-stepmother among the drowned spirits.

After finishing his story, the old man prepares to sleep and promises the girls that he will tell them another scary tale the following evening.