Viy (1967)
The Soviet Union’s first horror film!
77 min
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.
- Release date
- November 27, 1967
- Country of origin
- Russia
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Trailer
Cast
- Leonid Kuravlyov as Khoma
- Natalya Varley as Pannochka
- Aleksey Glazyrin as Sotnik
- Nikolay Kutuzov as Witch
- Vadim Zakharchenko as Khalyava
- Pyotr Vesklyarov as Prncipal of the Seminary
- Vladimir Salnikov as Gorobets
- Dmitriy Kapka as Overko
- Stepan Shkurat as Yavtukh
- Georgiy Sochevko as Stepan
- Nikolay Yakovchenko as Spirid
- Borislav Brondukov as bursak (uncredited)
- Aleksandra Denisova as countrywoman (uncredited)
- Lyubov Kalyuzhnaya as countrywoman (uncredited)
- Viktor Kolpakov as countryman (uncredited)
- Aleksandr Lebedev as bursak who milks a goat (uncredited)
- Dmitriy Orlovskiy as countryman (uncredited)
- Anna Pavlova as countrywoman (uncredited)
- Klara Rumyanova as Pannochka (voice)
- Pyotr Vesklyarov as Dorosh
Crew
- Aleksandr Ptushko · Director
- Aleksandr Ptushko · Writer
- Konstantin Ershov · Writer
- Georgiy Kropachyov · Writer
- Nikolay Gogol · Writer
- Karen Khachaturyan · Composer
- Viktor Pishchalnikov · Cinematographer
- Fyodor Provorov · Cinematographer
- Regina Pesetskaya · Editor
- Tamara Zubova · Editor
- Nikolay Markin · Production designer