Viy

“The Soviet Union’s first horror film!”

Khoma Brut (Leonid Kuravlyov), a seminary student on holiday, kills an old witch in a remote village and watches her turn into a beautiful young woman. Her dying wish is that he read prayers over her body for three nights, and Natalya Varley plays the daughter who makes him keep it. Konstantin Ershov and Georgi Kropachyov, adapting Gogol, set one man's thin faith against a night that will not stay quiet.