Viy
Вий
The Soviet Union’s first horror film!
Overview
A seminary student on monastery holiday kills an old witch in a remote village. The hag then transforms into a beautiful young woman whose dying wish is for him to watch over her wake for three nights. With terrors occurring and his faith waning, he reads prayers on the overnight watch and tries to survive the supernatural encounters.
- Production
- Luch, Mosfilm
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Cast
Leonid Kuravlyov
Khoma Brut
Natalya Varley
Pannochka, the Centurion's Daughter
Aleksey Glazyrin
Centurion
Nikolay Kutuzov
Witch
Vadim Zakharchenko
Freebie
Petro Vesklyarov
Dorosh
Vladimir Salnikov
Horobets
Dmytro Kapka
Overko
Stepan Shkurat
Yavtukh
Georgiy Sochevko
Stepan
Mykola Yakovchenko
Spirid
Boryslav Brondukov
bursak (uncredited)
Aleksandra Denisova
countrywoman (uncredited)
Lyubov Kalyuzhnaya
countrywoman (uncredited)
Viktor Kolpakov
countryman (uncredited)
Aleksandr Lebedev
bursak who milks a goat (uncredited)
Elena Muratova
pitchwoman (uncredited)
Dmitriy Orlovskiy
countryman (uncredited)
Anna Pavlova
countrywoman (uncredited)
Nikolai Yudin
monk (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Georgi Kropachyov,Konstantin Ershov
- Producers
- Vitaly Krivonoshchenko
- Cinematography
- Viktor Pishchalnikov,Fyodor Provorov
- Composer
- Karen Khachaturyan
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CinemaSerf
December 26, 2022
I gather this is one of the few "horror" films ever made during the Soviet era and it plays rather well on the superstitions of a rural population who are pretty much scared of their own shadows! "Khoma" (Leonid Kuravlyov) is a young priest who is charged with sitting with the corpse of a young woman. Locked, overnight, inside a small wooden church, he must protect her body from the evil spirits that might emanate from the depths of Hell to corrupt not just her, but him too! The eponymous "Viy" …