Composer:
Karen KhachaturyanPlots(1)
An eerie, foreboding, rarely-seen classic horror film from Russia, "Viy" is based on 19th century writer Nikolai Gogol's original story of Thomas Brutus, a theology student who is forced to read scripture for a young woman who has died. What he doesn't know is, she is the devil's emissary on earth. Over the three nights of his mission, Thomas is tempted and tormented by all the minions of hell as the young man's faith and courage are tested in a trial by fire. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Leonid Kuravlyov
Soviet Union
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Natalya Varley
Romania
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Viy or Spirit of Evil (1967)
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Stepan Shkurat
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Viy or Spirit of Evil (1967)
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Борислав Брондуков
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Nikolai Fyodorovich Yakovchenko
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Vadim Zakharchenko
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Pyotr Vesklyarov
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Viy or Spirit of Evil (1967)
Nikolay Stepanov
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Viy or Spirit of Evil (1967)
Nikolay Kutuzov
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Andrei Rublev (1966)
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Aleksey Glazyrin
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Aleksandra Denisova
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Lyubov Kalyuzhnaya
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