Viy | |
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Directed by | Leonid Zarubin Alla Grachyova |
Written by | Alla Grachyova |
Based on |
Viy by Nikolai Gogol |
Produced by | Vyacheslav Kilinsky |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Anatoliy Havrylov |
Edited by | Lidiya Mokrousova |
Music by |
Volodymyr Runchak Leonid Hrabovsky Alexander Scriabin |
Production company | Ukranimafilm |
Release date |
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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 [1] based on the story of the same name by Nikolai Gogol, filmed by the Ukranimafilm studio in 1996.
Kyiv seminarians, theologian Khalyava and rhetorician Tiberiy Gorobets, meet in a tavern where they discuss the mysterious death of their friend Khoma Brutus.
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". [2]
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". [3]