Viy (1996 film)

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

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.

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".[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]

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). Archived from the original on 2023-09-26. Retrieved 2023-03-03.