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Viy  (Ukrainian: Вій) is a 1996 Ukrainian animated dark fantasy short film directed by Leonid Zarubin, and Alla Grachyova^[1] based on the story of the same name by Nikolai Gogol, filmed by the Ukranimafilm studio in 1996.

Kyiv seminarians, theologian Khalyava and rhetorician Tiberiy Gorobets, meet in a tavern where they discuss the mysterious death of their friend Khoma Brutus.

• Bohdan Beniuk
• Natalya Sumska
• Vasyl Mazur
• Ivan Kadubets
• Yevgeny Shakh

According to film critic Stanislav F. Rostotsky (Kommersant), "the twenty-minute Ukrainian cartoon by Leonid Zarubin and Alla Grachyova is quite close to the text".^[2]

National Oleksandr Dovzhenko Film Centre writes: "Among other screen adaptations of Gogol, this was the closest to the text. The film's production artists created a beautiful, delicate picture of the baroque Cossack Ukraine and populated it with a whole range of diverse peasants. The color scheme is more restrained, almost dull, which is generally a common thing in 90s animation".^[3]

• Lyudmila Saraskina. Literary classics in the temptation of film adaptations. A century of reincarnations (2022)

• Viy at IMDb