Viy or Spirit of Evil (English subtitles). Part 4 of 8.
Viy (or Vii, Russian: Вий) is a 1967 horror film made on Mosfilm and based on the Nikolai Gogol story of the same name.
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Plot Synopsis.
This Russian film adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's story was for a long time the only horror film made in the Soviet Union. Khoma (Leonid Kuravlev), a young novice, travels across the countryside and stays for a night in a barn that belongs to an ugly old woman. When she attacks him at night and takes him for a broom ride, the scared novice fatally wounds her, and before she dies, she turns into a beautiful young noblewoman (Natalya Varley). The latter leaves a will, according to which Khoma should pray for her for three nights in the chapel until her body is buried. At night, the witch rises from the coffin and tries to catch Khoma. She flies around but she can't reach him or see him because he stays inside the circle that he has drawn around himself. During the third and last night, the witch makes the last attempt to scare him out of the circle, and she calls all sorts of ugly creatures to help her... Gogol wrote several stories based on Ukrainian folklore, many of them dealing with the Devil and the supernatural.
This begins a bit slowly but when it gets going it's full of creepy oddities that will delight anyone who likes horror or fantasy films. When the summoning of critters from beyond takes place the tomb is flooded with all manner of vampires, werewolves, etc., and NOT the American version so therefore they're a bit creepier and weird. All in all a very interesting little film (it's short, about 70 minutes or so) but well worth seeing.
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Directors: Georgi Kropachyov, Konstantin Yershov.
Writers: Nikolai Gogol (story), Georgi Kropachyov (writer).
Cast:
Leonid Kuravlyov as Khoma Brutus.
Natalya Varley as Pannochka.
Aleksei Glazyrin as Sotnik.
Nikolai Kutuzov as Witch.
Vadim Zakharchenko as Khaliava.
Pyotr Vesklyarov as Rector / Dorosh.
Vladimir Salnikov as Gorobetz.
Dmitri Kapkaas Overko.
Stepan Shkurat as Yavtukh.
G. Sochevko as Stepan.
Nikolai Yakovchenko as Spirid.
Nikolai Panasyev as Comforter.
© MOSFILM, 1967.
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From Allmovie: http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:168773
and The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062453/
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Notes:
About subtitles...
For the avoidance of unjust accusation of me in clumsy subtitles, I just wanna say that all subtitles I've downloaded from various fansub web-sites. I don't know about correctness of every translation but I would like to thanks all fansubers who make these subtitles for Russian movies...
English language is not my native, so I have no any chances and time to check all text in every subtitle for the purpose of mistakes in grammar and other nuances. The complete proof-reading for me is impossible. Before posting I only bring to conformity the time of subtitles with dialogues and phrases. So, if somebody find any mistakes, please forgive me... :-)
Author: GalaBiR
Keywords: Вий Viy Варлей Куравлёв Гоголь ужасы Horror Gogol
Added: March 14, 2008
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