A newspaper sends a young reporter into the Russian countryside to make a nice, sensationalist yarn out of some strange stories going around. Once in the countryside, Igor is accommodated by a peasant family living in the middle of nowhere close to a ruined church. The family is convinced that their dead patriarch will return from the dead as a blood-drinking fiend exactly nine and a half days after his demise.

Igor Shavlak
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Elena Karadzhova
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Yuri Katin-Yartsev
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Nikolay Kochegarov
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Nikolai Voloshin
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Aleksandr Ryzhkov
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Vsevolod Khabarov
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Aleksandr Samoylenko
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Ivan Shchegolev
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