Viy (1909 film)
Viy | |
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Russian: Вий | |
Directed by | Vasili Goncharov |
Written by | Vasili Goncharov |
Produced by | Aleksandr Khanzhonkov |
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Cinematography | Joseph-Louis Mundwiller |
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Country | Russian Empire |
Language | Russian |
Viy (Russian: Вий) is a 1909 Russian short film directed and written by Vasili Goncharov. This is the first Russian film-horror.[1][2]
The film is considered lost.[3]
Plot
[edit]The film is a screen version of the 1835 novella by Gogol.
Cast
[edit]- I. Langfeld
- A. Platonov
- V. Dalskaya
References
[edit]- ^ Вий (фильм, 1909)
- ^ Ужасное кино
- ^ Jacq, Jasmine (2009-01-01). "1909-2009 : a hundred years of Gogol adaptations in Russian and Soviet cinema". Slavic Almanac: The South African Journal for Slavic, Central and Eastern European Studies. 15 (2): 173–192. hdl:10520/EJC108622.