A seminary student on monastery holiday kills an old witch in a remote village. The hag then transforms into a beautiful young woman whose dying wish is for him to watch over her wake for three nights. With terrors occurring and his faith waning, he reads prayers on the overnight watch and tries to survive the supernatural encounters.
Cast
Leonid Kuravlyov
Khoma Brut
Natalya Varley
Pannochka, the Centurion's Daughter
Aleksey Glazyrin
Centurion
Nikolay Kutuzov
Witch
Vadim Zakharchenko
Freebie
Petro Vesklyarov
Dorosh
Vladimir Salnikov
Horobets
Dmytro Kapka
Overko
Stepan Shkurat
Yavtukh
Georgiy Sochevko
Stepan
Mykola Yakovchenko
Spirid
Nikolay Panasev
comforter
Boryslav Brondukov
bursak (uncredited)
Sergey Vanyashkin
piper (uncredited)
Boris Veselov
two-nosed ghoul (uncredited)
Aleksandra Denisova
countrywoman (uncredited)
Lyubov Kalyuzhnaya
countrywoman (uncredited)
Mykhailo Kramar
bursak (uncredited)
Viktor Kolpakov
countryman (uncredited)
Aleksandr Lebedev
bursak who milks a goat (uncredited)
Elena Muratova
pitchwoman (uncredited)
Dmitriy Orlovskiy
countryman (uncredited)
Anna Pavlova
countrywoman (uncredited)
Сергей Степанов
Viy (uncredited)
Nikolai Yudin
monk (uncredited)
Klara Rumyanova
Pannochka (voice)
Crew
Georgi Kropachyov
Director, Screenplay
Konstantin Ershov
Director, Screenplay
Anatoliy Stepanov
Script Editor
Aleksandr Ptushko
Screenplay, Stunt Coordinator, Art Direction
Nikolai Gogol
Short Story
Regina Pesetskaya
Editor
Tamara Zubrova
Editor
Viktor Pishchalnikov
Director of Photography
Fyodor Provorov
Director of Photography
Vitaly Krivonoshchenko
Executive Producer
Nikolay Markin
Production Design
Boris Travkin
Visual Effects Camera
Roza Satunovskaya
Costume Design
B. Yegorov
Key Makeup Artist
Zinaida Yegorova
Key Makeup Artist
Sarra Mokil
Prosthetic Makeup Artist
Irina Stulova
Sound Recordist
Yevgeni Kashkevich
Sound Recordist
V. Smirnov
Visual Effects Designer
Nikolay Zvonaryov
Visual Effects Designer
Karen Khachaturyan
Original Music Composer
N. Matveyev
Script Consultant
Emin Khachaturyan
Conductor
