Synopsis
Watch Gogol. Viy (2018) online on iFILM — the second film in Russia's Gogol franchise, directed by Yegor Baranov with Alexander Petrov returning as a young Nikolai Gogol who moonlights as an unwilling detective. Back in Dikanka, an eleventh girl has been found dead. The Dark Horseman is not stopping.
Gogol's blackouts keep flooding him with visions he can't control, and when he discovers his beloved Liza may be next, the case turns personal. Enter Evgeny Stychkin as Khoma Brut — a witch-hunting philosopher with a gift for violence and the sharpest sense of humour in the film. Together they barricade themselves inside a crumbling chapel for three harrowing nights, reading funeral rites over the witch Ulyana and drawing out something far older.
Baranov treats the Gogol mythology as raw material, not sacred text — the film moves fast, cuts dark and lets Stychkin do memorable work in every scene he's in. Watch Gogol. Viy online on iFILM.
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