Viy (1996 film)

Viy
Directed by	Leonid Zarubin Alla Grachyova
Written by	Alla Grachyova
Based on	Viy by Nikolai Gogol
Produced by	Vyacheslav Kilinsky
Starring	Bohdan Beniuk Natalya Sumska Vasyl Mazur
Cinematography	Anatoliy Havrylov
Edited by	Lidiya Mokrousova
Music by	Volodymyr Runchak Leonid Hrabovsky Alexander Scriabin
Production company	Ukranimafilm
Release date	1996
Running time	19 minutes
Country	Ukraine
Language	Ukrainian

Viy  (Ukrainian: Вій) is a 1996 Ukrainian animated dark fantasy short film directed by Leonid Zarubin, and Alla Grachyova based on the story of the same name by Nikolai Gogol, filmed by the Ukranimafilm studio in 1996.

Plot

Kyiv seminarians, theologian Khalyava and rhetorician Tiberiy Gorobets, meet in a tavern where they discuss the mysterious death of their friend Khoma Brutus.

Voice cast

• Bohdan Beniuk
• Natalya Sumska
• Vasyl Mazur
• Ivan Kadubets
• Yevgeny Shakh

Critical response

According to film critic Stanislav F. Rostotsky (Kommersant), "the twenty-minute Ukrainian cartoon by Leonid Zarubin and Alla Grachyova is quite close to the text".

National Oleksandr Dovzhenko Film Centre writes: "Among other screen adaptations of Gogol, this was the closest to the text. The film's production artists created a beautiful, delicate picture of the baroque Cossack Ukraine and populated it with a whole range of diverse peasants. The color scheme is more restrained, almost dull, which is generally a common thing in 90s animation".

Literature

• Lyudmila Saraskina. Literary classics in the temptation of film adaptations. A century of reincarnations (2022)

External links

• Viy at IMDb