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With support of the Ministry
of Culture of Ukraine

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Ukranimafilm

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Viy
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Viy
Based on the eponymous novel by Gogol

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Once, in an ale-house, two friends
from the Pakievska seminary met -

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Bogoslav Kholava and Tiberius Gorobetz.

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Kholava!

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Kholava,

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Have you heard 
what has happened to Thomas Brutus?

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No. What?

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Our Thomas perished.

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How did we lose him?

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Do you remember when we
got lost in the steppe?

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No I don't remember...
Oh, yeah! That was a dark night.

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One can't see anything.

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Where is the road?

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It is gone.

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Let's shout. There should
be a farm near here.

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Ahoy. Ahoy!!..

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The farm!

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It's from the farm.

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I told you that a farm was near.

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Here we are!

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Maybe we can get something to eat here,

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and maybe a little drink for the night!

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Open up.

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Who's there?

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Simple monks.

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We have lost our way.
Let us spend the night here.

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It is impossible.
The whole house is full of people.

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Sleep in the steppe.

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Go away!

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Have mercy old woman!

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How can you let Christian souls
suffer for no reason?

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Let us in, grandma.

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Well, I'll let you in!
But you must sleep in different rooms.

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You will sleep in the barn.

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You will meet the horses.
How good for you.

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As you wish! Although it might
have been better to sleep in the steppe.

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What is it, grandma?

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Eh! Listen here, grandma:

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Today's a fast, and I am the sort
of man who will not break it
even for 1000 golden coins.

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You, dear, are too old
for this kind of stuff.

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What do you want?

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Go away... go away in the name of God.

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You are hurting me.

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Oh!? What is this?

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What is happening to me? What is
this sinful bliss overwhelming me?

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Scary and sweet.

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Lord! Oh Lord! Forgive my sinfulness!

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Prayer. I need a prayer.

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Resurrect, God. Let all of
your enemies go away like smoke.

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Abolish all unholy spirits.

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Holy saints! Holy saints! Holy saints!

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Ha ha. Ha ha!

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Thomas got scared!

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Don't laugh.

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Hear what happened next.

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Rumors came up that the daughter of
a rich noble from an estate near Kiev

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came home all beat up
and very close to death.

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She summoned for Thomas Brutus
to read the prayers for the dead on her.

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They sent the horses for him.

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I remember. Thomas did not want to go.

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But our rector used his cane.

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Then Thomas agreed.

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Where did you come to know my daughter?

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I do not know her, gracious sir;
I declare I do not know her.

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My dearest died.

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Before her death, she told her mother:
Let no one offer up prayers for me.

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Send to Kiev for the
student Thomas Brutus;

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"Thomas Brutus"

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He shall pray three nights
running for my sinful soul

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— he knows.

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"He knows."

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But what he really knows she never said.

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Yes. I believe it would be better to send
for a deacon, he'll know what is to be done.

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But me...

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Oh, no. If you want me to spare your life,

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you'll read the prayers for her - 3 nights,
for which you'll be rewarded. With gold.

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But if you do not,
You shall taste the iron spike.

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Go!

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Never mind. I can manage to
hold out for three nights,

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and then the colonel will fill 
both my pockets with gold.

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Ah! The witch!

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What is there to be afraid of?

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She will not rise from her bier, 
since she fears God's word.

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Oh, woe upon me.

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Holy saints! Holy saints! Holy saints!
What horror.

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Maybe it was a dream?

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It was not a dream.

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Thomas didn't tell any one 
what he saw in the church.

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He asked Garilki for a room and
went to sleep till the evening.

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And in the evening they brought 
him to the church again.

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I am over the first shock.

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The first time I was frightened,
but I am not frightened at all now!

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Be gone! Be gone, Satan!

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My Lord! My Lord save me!

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In the evening, Thomas
was found barely alive.

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When they brought him to daylight,
he was pale as a towel.

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Maybe that's the way it happened 
and maybe it was not.

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Maybe he was drunk.

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I don't know. That's what people say.

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Thomas decided to run.

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Good day.
Well, how are you getting on?

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Let me go, Pan.

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How's that?

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I can't. I can't go on!

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Your daughter, sir,
she is, of course, of noble descent -

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no one can dispute that, nevertheless...

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...don’t be angry, and
may God grant her eternal rest!

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She is in league with the devil.

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Listen here, philosopher! It was not
for nothing that she sent for you.

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There is only one night more!

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Go!

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What horror.

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I will run away.

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I will run away.

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I'm not afraid.

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What have I really to fear?
Am I not a Cossack?

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I held out for 2 nights. With God's help
I will get through the third night as well.

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My Lord. My king almighty.

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I sold my soul.

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The devil tricked me with his black doings.

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Woe upon me.
Oh, woe upon me!

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Oh, King, take his soul,
And let mine go.

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Here comes his army.
Have mercy on me.

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Bring the Viy*. Bring him!
* The king of the gnomes

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Bring the child to me.
Raise my eyelids!

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I can’t see anything!

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I must not watch.

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There is he!

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Aghh! I've lost my sinful soul.

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They never found a trace of him.

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The church became a scary place, with
monsters stuck in windows and doors.

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It became overgrown,

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and no one goes there anymore. Yeah.

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He was a fine fellow, Thomas,

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but he lost his life for nothing!

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Yes; God had appointed it so:

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He died because he feared the witch.

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One ought to cross oneself incessantly
and spit exactly on her tail,

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and then not the least harm can happen.

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I know all about it, for here, in Kiev,
all grannies in the market-place are witches.

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Maybe that's true,

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but let's remember Thomas Brutus.

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Amen!

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screenwriter & director
Alla Grachova

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art-directors M. Churylov, I. Kotkov
based on sketches by V. Melnychenko

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camera A. Havrylov
director L. Zarubin
sound I. Pogon, Yu. Nechesa

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animators K. Chykyn, A. Grachova

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artists N. Mylkovytska, O. Fomenko,
L. Snezhko,V. Kozarenko, M. Korolkova,
O. Makarova, I. Borodayeva, S. Golovin

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voices B. Benyuk, I. Kadubets,
N. Sumska, V. Mazur, Ye. Shakh


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music V. Runchak, L Hrabobskiy,
V. Shapovalenko, V. Rybalchenko, 
M. Skorulskiy, B. Moshkova, O. Skryabin

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montage L. Mokrousovaya
assistants A. Lapchinska, 
L. Kucherova, I. Shevchuk

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script editor S. Kutsenko
production director V. Kilinskiy

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The End, Kiev, 1996
subs by zemzela@gmail.com, revised
by Eus (2015) and Niffiwan (2024)