Trailer
Plot summary
During Lent the students of the Kiev seminary travel home, and three of them lose the road in the night fog. An old woman at a farm lets them stay provided they sleep in different parts of the farm. Khoma Brut settles in the barn, where the old woman comes to him; he refuses her, and she climbs onto his back and carries him flying over the countryside. He calls on the name of Christ and brings her to the ground, then strikes her until she becomes a young woman. He runs back to the seminary, where the rector says a wealthy sotnik's dying daughter has asked for his prayers. Servants fetch him to the estate, where the sotnik wants him to keep vigil over the body for three nights.
Cast
- Nikolay Panasevas Uteshitel
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Viy (1967)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The witch scenes and Viy's appearance were toned down because of technological limits and restrictions on Soviet film production; the directors dodged the rules by treating the story as a folk tale.
