Viy

A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a witch in the church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.

Cast

Leonid Kuravlyov

as Khoma Brut

Natalya Varley

as Pannochka, the Centurion's Daughter

Aleksey Glazyrin

as Centurion

Nikolay Kutuzov

as Witch

Vadim Zakharchenko

as Freebie

Petro Vesklyarov

as Dorosh

Vladimir Salnikov

as Horobets

Dmitriy Kapka

as Overko

Stepan Shkurat

as Yavtukh

Georgiy Sochevko

as Stepan

Reviews

CinemaSerf

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 woma...

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