The film type: a full-length feature film
Genre: adventure, mystical
Production: film company RFG (ROSPOfilm Group), TV channel “Inter” (Ukraine), film company “Caroprokat”, Internet Holding MAIL.RU, Gorky Film Studio, film company STEP by STEP, film studio “The 21st CREATIVE ASSOCIATION” with the participation of film company ANKOR-film (Czech Republic)
Information partner: “Arguments and Facts” weekly (“Argumenty i Fakty” weekly)
Production stage: in production
Premiere: 2009

Producers: Sergey Sozanovskiy, Leonid Ogorodnikov, Dmitry Grishin, Stanislav Erchov, Alexey A. Petrukhin
Executive producers: Oleg Stepchenko, Alexey Ryazantsev, Slava Chernyavsky, Irina Bykova, Aleksandr Bykov, Mikhail Bykov
Screenplay: Oleg Stepchenko, Alexander Karpov (based on Nikolai Gogol’s classic novel “Viy”)
Director: Oleg Stepchenko
Director of Photography: Vladimir Smutny
Art Director: Jan Kadlec
Music Composer: Anton Garcia
Property Master: Karel Vanasek
Production Designer: Alexander Kozak
Costume Designer: Jarmila Konecna
Stunt Coordinator: Jiri Kuba
Leading Roles: to be announced
Supporting Actors: Valeriy Zolotukhin, Alexey Chadov, Andrey Smolyakov, Nina Ruslanova, Anna Churina, Agniya Ditkovskite, Yuri Tsurilo, Ivan Mokhovikov, Anatoliy Gustchin, Alexander Karpov, Alexander Yakovlev, Olga Zaitseva, Alexey A. Petrukhin, Alexey Ogurtsov, Igor Jijikine, Oleg Taktarov and others

Synopsis
“Viy is a monster living in the mire of the swamps. It has magic stare that penetrates into the human soul and opens it for every sort of evil spirits. Nothing can save from Viy’s stare”. (Slavonic Mythology)
Early 18th century. Cartographer Jonathan Green undertakes a scientific voyage from Europe to the East. Having passed through Transylvania and crossed the Carpathian Mountains, he finds himself in a small village lost in impassible woods. Nothing but chance and heavy fog could bring him to this cursed place. People who live here do not resemble any other people which the traveler saw before that. The villagers, having dug a deep moat to fend themselves from the rest of the world, share a naive belief that they could save themselves from evil, failing to understand that evil has made its nest in their souls and is waiting for an opportunity to gush out upon the world. Even in his worst nightmares our materialistic scientist could not suppose that he was going to meet devil’s faithful servant.