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Viy

Soviet Union

1967-11-27(SU)
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Drama,
Fantasy,
Horror
▪ 1h-16m

69^%

User
Score

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.

Konstantin ErshovScreenplay
Georgi KropachyovScreenplay
Aleksandr PtushkoScreenplay
Karen KhachaturyanOriginal Music Composer
Roza SatunovskayaCostume Design
Fyodor ProvorovDirector of Photography

Top Billed 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 Karpa

Overko

Stepan Shkurat

Yavtukh

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A review by CinemaSerf

7.0

Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-12-26

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...

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