Completed - RUSSIAN - Horror, Fantasy - 100 minutes
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Year of production : 2017 Director(s) : Egor BARANOV Writer(s) : Tikhon KORNEV, Kim BELOV, Alexey CHUPOV, Natalya MERKULOVA, Alexey KARAULOV, Philip KONYASHOV Cast : Alexander PETROV, Oleg MENSHIKOV, Yevgeny STYCHKIN Producer(s) : Ivan SAMOKHVALOV (Sreda Production), Alexander TSEKALO (Sreda Production), Artur JANIBEKYAN, Valeriy FYODOROVOCH, Evgeniy NIKISHOV
Cossacks, witches, mermaids, drowned women and other inhabitants of Dikanka come face to face with their Creator Nikolai Gogol, a young clerk from St. Petersburg who suffers from mysterious seizures and can communicate with characters from the other world. Together with his boss, a brilliant investigator Yakov Guro, an aspiring writer comes to the Poltava region to investigate the mysterious murders of girls. Here he meets his love, which is destined to play a fatal role in his fate. But will the young writer have the spirit to resist the unimaginable? After all, according to rumors that are actively spread by frightened locals, the crimes are committed by none other than the Devil himself in the guise of a black rider.
Country(ies) : RUSSIA
Accolade Global Film Competition 2017 (Award of Excellence)The Indie Gathering International Film Festival 2017 (TV pilot — foreign)