Valery RUBINCHIK
Валерий РУБИНЧИК
Valeri ROUBINTCHIK
USSR, 1979, 134mn 
Colour, fiction
Dikaya okota korolya Stakha
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Дикая охота короля Стаха

 

 The Savage Hunt of King Stach

 La Chasse sauvage du roi Stakh

 
Directed by : Valery RUBINCHIK (Валерий РУБИНЧИК)
Writing credits : Vladimir KOROTKEVICH (Владимир КОРОТКЕВИЧ), Valery RUBINCHIK (Валерий РУБИНЧИК)
Based on V. Korotkevich's short story
 
Cast
Yelena DIMITROVA (Елена ДИМИТРОВА) ...Nadejda Yanovskaïa
Yuri DUBROVIN (Юрий ДУБРОВИН) ...médecin assermenté
Viktor ILICHEV (Виктор ИЛЬИЧЁВ) ...commissaire de police
Boris PLOTNIKOV (Борис ПЛОТНИКОВ) ...Andreï Beloretski
 
Cinematography : Tatyana LOGINOVA (Татьяна ЛОГИНОВА)
Production design : Aleksandr CHERTOVICH (Александр ЧЕРТОВИЧ)
Music : Yevgeni GLEBOV (Евгений ГЛЕБОВ)
Sound : Viktor MORS (Виктор МОРС)
Companies : Belarusfilm
 

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Ruscico. 2006.
Langues : RU EN FR
Sous-titres : RU EN FR ES IT DE
Bonus : interview V. Roubintchik

Plot synopsis
A mystical drama based on a story by V. Korotkevich. The film is set in out-of-the-way Belarusian woodlands at the end of the 19th century. A young ethnographer, Andrej Bielarecki, comes here to research local folk legends… A film that justly claims to be the first Soviet mystical thriller. A gripping, suspenseful plot. Terrifying medieval legends turning to real horror. “‘Stach”’s been assigned a most honorable place in history, next to ‘Cat’s Eye’, ‘Night of the Living Dead’, and a masterpiece of the national sub-horror, the animation ‘Hazelnut Twig’.” (Denis Gorelov, “Izvestiya”)
 

commentaries
La Chasse sauvage du roi Stakh, film gothique soviétique [1979, de Valeri ROUBINTCHIK], Hervé AUBERT, lemagducine.fr, 2019
Un genre en miettes ? Retour sur l’absence du film d’horreur dans la Russie soviétique, Andrey KOZOVOÏ, 1895, 55, AFRHC, 2008
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- International Film Festival of Russia and Near Abroad "Lendoc Film Festival", St Petersburg (Russia), 2022
- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2010