Viy
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.
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
Dmytro Karpa
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...
