Viy () is a Ukrainian animated cartoon directed by Leonid Zarubin, and Alla Grachyova based on the novel 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
Bohdan Beniuk
Natalya Sumska
Vasyl Mazur
Ivan Kadubets
Yevgeny Shakh
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".
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".
Literature
Lyudmila Saraskina. Literary classics in the temptation of film adaptations. A century of reincarnations (2022)
References
External links
1996 animated films
Ukrainian-language films
Films based on Viy (story) Folk horror films Animated films based on Russian folklore Animated films based on Slavic mythology Animated films about witchcraft Ukrainian animated films Ukrainian animated fantasy films Demons in film Animated films based on novels Animated films based on Russian short fiction Animated horror films Dark fantasy films