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1996 Ukrainian film
Viy
Directed byLeonid Zarubin
Alla Grachyova
Written byAlla Grachyova
Based onViy
by Nikolai Gogol
Produced byVyacheslav Kilinsky
Starring
CinematographyAnatoliy Havrylov
Edited byLidiya Mokrousova
Music byVolodymyr Runchak
Leonid Hrabovsky
Alexander Scriabin
Production
company		Ukranimafilm
Release date
  • 1996 (1996)
Running time19 minutes
CountryUkraine
LanguageUkrainian

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

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

References

  1. Фильмография Аллы Грачёвой. kino-teatr.ru
  2. Коммерсантъ Weekend (2018-04-06). "Вий на жительство. Станислав Ф. Ростоцкий об экранизациях "Вия"". kommersant.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-03-03.
  3. National Oleksandr Dovzhenko Film Centre. "Вий (1996): Центр Довженко". dovzhenkocentre.org (in Ukrainian).

External links

Nikolai Gogol's Viy
Films
Sequels
Television
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