Viy
The Soviet Union’s first horror film!
19671h 16mNo ratings yet
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Horror
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.
Keywords
- witch
- village
- corpse
- demon
- folk horror
- evil spirit
- gothic horror
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 27, 1967
- Original language
- Russian
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Cast
- Leonid Kuravlyov,Natalya Varley,Aleksey Glazyrin,Nikolay Kutuzov,Vadim Zakharchenko,Petro Vesklyarov,Vladimir Salnikov,Dmytro Kapka,Stepan Shkurat,Georgiy Sochevkoand 16 more
- Director
- Georgi Kropachyov,Konstantin Ershov
- Writer
- Konstantin Ershov,Georgi Kropachyov,Aleksandr Ptushko,Nikolai Gogol,Anatoliy Stepanov,N. Matveyev
- Producer
- Vitaly Krivonoshchenko
- Cinematography
- Fyodor Provorov,Viktor Pishchalnikov
- Music
- Karen Khachaturyan
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0062453