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The Soviet Union’s first horror film!
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.
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Cast
Leonid KuravlyovKhoma Brut
Natalya VarleyPannochka, the Centurion's Daughter
Aleksey GlazyrinCenturion
Nikolay KutuzovWitch
Vadim ZakharchenkoFreebie
Petro VesklyarovDorosh
Vladimir SalnikovHorobets
Dmytro KapkaOverko
Stepan ShkuratYavtukh
Georgiy SochevkoStepan
Mykola YakovchenkoSpirid- Nikolay Panasevcomforter
Boryslav Brondukovbursak (uncredited)- Sergey Vanyashkinpiper (uncredited)
Details
- Director
- Georgi Kropachyov, Konstantin Ershov
- Writers
- Georgi Kropachyov, Aleksandr Ptushko, Konstantin Ershov
- Release date
- November 27, 1967
- Runtime
- 1h 16m
- Original language
- Russian
- Studios
- Luch, Mosfilm
