Viy
The Soviet Union’s first horror film!
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.
Trailer
Cast
Elena Muratova
pitchwoman (uncredited)
Dmitriy Orlovskiy
countryman (uncredited)
Nikolai Yudin
monk (uncredited)
Aleksey Glazyrin
Centurion
Petro Vesklyarov
Dorosh
Stepan Shkurat
Yavtukh
Aleksandra Denisova
countrywoman (uncredited)
Lyubov Kalyuzhnaya
countrywoman (uncredited)
Anna Pavlova
countrywoman (uncredited)
Nikolay Kutuzov
Witch
Dmytro Kapka
Overko
Aleksandr Lebedev
bursak who milks a goat (uncredited)
Klara Rumyanova
Pannochka (voice)
Leonid Kuravlyov
Khoma Brut
Natalya Varley
Pannochka, the Centurion's Daughter
Vadim Zakharchenko
Freebie
Boryslav Brondukov
bursak (uncredited)
Viktor Kolpakov
countryman (uncredited)
Vladimir Salnikov
Horobets
Georgiy Sochevko
Stepan
Mykola Yakovchenko
Spirid