Viy or Spirit of Evil
Viy

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Country	USSR
Directed by	Konstantin Ershov Georgiy Kropachyov
Release Date	1967
Language	Russian Ukrainian
Studio	Mosfilm Luch
Distributor	Mosfilm

Main Cast
Character	Actor
Khoma	Leonid Kuravlyov
Pannochka	Natalya Varley
Sotnik	Aleksey Glazyrin
Witch	Nikolay Kutuzov
Rector / Dorosh	Pyotr Vesklyarov
Khalyava	Vadim Zakharchenko
Overko	Dmitriy Kapka
Yavtukh	Stepan Shkurat
Gorobets	Vladimir Salnikov

Viy or Spirit of Evil (Russin: Вий; Viy) is the 1967 Soviet mystery horror, based on the novel of the Nikolai Gogol Viy. Beeng the fourth ecranisation (the previosly three (1909, 1912 and 1916 are belives to be lost) it's very close to original text. The novel also was another three ecranisations (1990's A Holy Place (Sveto mesto), 2006's The Power of Fear (Vedma) and 2014's Forbidden Empire althought the last three versions are very loosely based on the novel. Accisentely, this is the only Soviet horror movie of those years.

P.S. Viy is the evil God of east slavian pre christian mythology.

The following weapons were used in the film Viy or Spirit of Evil:

Pistols

Flintlock Pistol

Dorosh (Pyotr Vesklyarov) carry Flintlock Pistol on his belt throughout the movie. Two similar Flintlock Pistols were hanged on the wall in Sotnik's house.