Viy (1909 film)
Appearance
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Directed by | Vasili Goncharov |
Written by | Vasili Goncharov |
Produced by | Aleksandr Khanzhonkov |
Starring |
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Cinematography | Joseph-Louis Mundwiller |
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Release date | September 14, 1909 |
Country | Russian Empire |
Language | Russian |
Viy (Template:Lang-ru) 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
The film is a screen version of the 1835 novella by Gogol.
Cast
- I. Langfeld
- A. Platonov
- V. Dalskaya
References
- ^ 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.
External links
Categories:
- 1909 films
- 1900s Russian-language films
- Russian silent short films
- 1909 short films
- Russian black-and-white films
- Films directed by Vasily Goncharov
- Films of the Russian Empire
- Films based on Viy (story)
- Lost Russian films
- 1909 lost films
- Folk horror films
- Films based on Russian folklore
- Films based on Slavic mythology
- Films about witchcraft
- Pathé films
- Russian film stubs
- 1900s film stubs