Egor BARANOV
Егор БАРАНОВ
Egor BARANOV
Russia, 2018, 99mn 
fiction
Gogol. Viy
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Гоголь. Вий

 

 Les Chroniques de Viy. Les chasseurs de démons

 Gogol.Viy

 
Directed by : Egor BARANOV (Егор БАРАНОВ)
Writing credits : Aleksey CHUPOV (Алексей ЧУПОВ), Natalia MERKULOVA (Наталья МЕРКУЛОВА)
 
Cast
Aleksandr PETROV (Александр ПЕТРОВ) ...Nicolay Gogol
Yevgeni STYCHKIN (Евгений СТЫЧКИН) ...Binkh, the policeman
Taisya VILKOVA (Таисия ВИЛКОВА)
Artiom TKACHENKO (Артем ТКАЧЕНКО)
Sergey BADYUK (Сергей БАДЮК)
Yulia FRANTZ / DZUTSEVA (Юлия ФРАНЦ / ДЗУЦЕВА)
Kseniya RAZINA (Ксения РАЗИНА)
Yevgeni SYTY (Евгений СЫТЫЙ)
Marta TIMOFEEVA (Марта ТИМОФЕЕВА)
Yan TSAPNIK (Ян ЦАПНИК )
Aleksey VERTKOV (Алексей ВЕРТКОВ)
 
Cinematography : Sergey TROFIMOV (Сергей ТРОФИМОВ)
Production design : Alisa DONIK (Алиса ДОНИК), Yelena ZHUKOVA (Елена ЖУКОВА)
Editing : Aleksandr_4 IVANOV (Александр_4 ИВАНОВ)
Produced by : Valery FEDOROVICH (Валерий ФЕДОРОВИЧ), Artur JANIBEKYAN (Артур ДЖАНИБЕКЯН), Aleksandr TSEKALO (Александр ЦЕКАЛО)
Other persons :
Musique : Ryan Otter
Production : Продюсерская компания «Среда» / Société de production "Sreda"
Film revenue in Russia : 7.404 million dollars
Spectators : 1 950 432
Release date in Russia : 05/04/2018
 
VOD or DVD release in France : 2020-02-06, Site

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Metropolitan Film & Video. 2020. Titre : Les origines du mal + Le Chasseur de démons.
Deux disques dans le coffret appartenant aux Chroniques de Viy

Plot synopsis
Nicolas Gogol, a cleric from Saint Petersburg, provokes the dark and mysterious Horseman who cruelly attacks young girls in the vicinity of the village of Dikanka. Having assembled a team made up of a local policeman, a drunk doctor, a superstitious blacksmith and a wandering exorcist philosopher, Gogol tries to lure the scoundrel into a trap but on his way stands an incarnation of the devil, Viï, whose gaze can suck the soul of a mortal. Stunned Gogol discovers that he is connected to the forces of the afterlife not only by mysterious appearances.
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Horreur et tragédie: huit films russo-soviétiques pour une soirée d’Halloween réussie, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2022
Egor Baranov – Les Chroniques de Viy (2017-2018), Russkaya Fantastika, 2020
Egor Baranov: Gogol—Viy (Gogol’. Vii, 2018) and Gogol—A Terrible Vengeance (Gogol’. Strashnaia mest’, 2018), Ira ÖSTERBERG, Kinokultura, 2019
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- VOD or DVD release in France of the film:, Different cities (France), 2020
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2018