| Viy | |
| Director: | Leonid Zarubin Alla Grachyova |
| Producer: | Vyacheslav Kilinsky |
| Music: | Volodymyr Runchak Leonid Hrabovsky Alexander Scriabin |
| Cinematography: | Anatoliy Havrylov |
| Editing: | Lidiya Mokrousova |
| Studio: | Ukranimafilm |
| Runtime: | 19 minutes |
| Country: | Ukraine |
| Language: | Ukrainian |
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.
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]