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''Gogol. Viy'' (russian: Гоголь. Вий) is a 2018
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directed by Egor Baranov, sequel to the 2017 film ''
Gogol. The Beginning ''Gogol. The Beginning'' (russian: Гоголь. Начало, Gogol. Nachalo) is a 2017 Russian fantasy- horror film directed by Yegor Baranov loosely based on works by Nikolai Gogol from the 1832 collection ''Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka''. ...
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Plot

After the events of the first film, Nikolai Gogol finds a case: among the things of Yakov Petrovich Guro is a secret file on himself with a postscript: ''"Mystery of birth — dark?"''. Five brothers of Gogol died at birth or soon after birth; later, in the visions of Nikolai and the memories of Yakim (who does not dare to reveal the truth to the gentleman), Vasily Gogol-Yanovsky accepts from despair the offer of a stranger with a bandage on his face, covering his nose. The stranger promises that the baby will survive, but payment for this will be an agreement with certain forces; Vasily replies that he is ready for anything, just to not bury his children anymore. When Nikolai is born, the stranger revives the stillborn baby.


Chapter Three. Enchanted place

In the morning, foreign sorcerer Basavryuk arrives in Dikanka: local people know him and are afraid, because he is famed as a hunter for the souls of Christians. However, there are no grounds for his arrest, and the priest warns Gogol to stay away from him. When the next girl disappears in Dikanka (Darina) and her search leads to nothing, Gogol notices in Guro's notes a list of dates - church holidays and one victim of the Dark Horseman corresponds to each holiday. In attempts to find Darina, Gogol tries to learn how to control her gift and sees a red flower in the "den of the beast." Not knowing how to interpret the vision, he finally accepts Oksana's help; her condition - Nikolai must belong to her. The flower turns out to be a blossom, blooming once a year, where the magic of gold is hidden. It's only the innocent soul that can break it and get hold of the treasure if it spills the blood of another innocent. "The lair of the beast" is the Bear's ravine, which the locals pass by, believing that this is a damned land. In the visions, Nikolai foresees that there will be a murder, and an unknown girl asks him a question: ''"Maybe you are my betrothed?"''. Taking the gun, Gogol goes there at night, but instead of the Horseman, Darina is brought there by the sorcerer. He proposes the fiancé of Darina's sister to shed blood so that he will receive gold (and become rich to marry), and the sorcerer will take his soul. When he agrees, Nikolai, unable to dissuade the villains, kills him, and the sorcerer disappears. Wounded Darina is saved Dr. Leopold Bomgart who exerts great efforts: although he has committed to operate on the living after he failed to save a child in the past, the doctor finds the courage to try again and he succeeds. However, it is impossible to prevent the killing of the new victim of the Horseman: she is the second girl from visions. Nothing is left for Gogol, Bomgart, Yakim, blacksmith Vakula and investigator Binh, except to wait for the next holiday.


Chapter Four. Viy

On a new holiday, Gogol advises Binh to urge residents of Dikanka not to leave the houses at night. Although the night passes without new victims, the next morning seven houses are marked with the sign of the Horseman. What's unusual is that they also marked the Danishevskys' house, although the Dark Horseman had never touched noblemen before and killed only peasants. Not seeing other options, Nikolai suggests to hide all the girls from the labeled houses in a secret place under the protection of the Cossacks. This proposal does not find support from Binh, since he begins to suspect Gogol of having links to the murderer. Danishevsky also rudely rejects the proposal to take Lisa with him. Thanks to the little daughter of the blacksmith Vakula, Gogol guesses that the signs on the houses were put by the witch from the village (the signs were painted with the blood of a dog, and in her house the girl saw a dead dog). However, the witch can not be interrogated: she is stabbed by a stranger with an aspen stake, who runs away when Nikolai appears. Waking up at the scene of the murder, Gogol falls under the suspicion of Binh (no one except him saw the killer) and finds on the floor the spell he wrote in Latin. After studying the evidence and weapons of a stranger (Oksana, scarcely seeing him, says in horror that this is an aspen from the holy land, conspired against the evil forces), Nikolai comes to the conclusion that the murderer intended to perform a ritual over the body, but did not have time to complete it, which means that he will try to finish the deed later. The murderer is really ambushed in a shed, where the witch's body lies; it turns out to be the wandering exorcist Homa Brutus. He arrived in Dikanka to fight again with the demon Viy, and the witch needed him as a bait. Making sure that Gogol is not a murderer, Binh gives the go-ahead to hide the girls. Khoma, escaping from imprisonment, takes Gogol hostage and asks him to help him defeat Viy: he simply does not have enough strength alone, and only a man with a dark gift strong enough that the spell that casts out the demon would work. Locked in a church with a witch's body and drawing a circle, Homa waits until Viy arrives, but dies. Gogol reads the spell himself, why Viy disappears, but Nikolai himself falls dead. At night, the Dark Horseman finds a secret place (abandoned farm) and kills all Cossacks and girls inside it. Arriving at the site, Binh and Vakula conclude that someone had revealed the location of the shelter to the Horseman, which only four knew: Binh himself, his assistant (scribe Tesak), Gogol and Alexei Danishevsky. The first thing Binh decides to arrest and interrogate Gogol, but finds him in the church without signs of life. ''The film ends with scenes from the sequel, " Gogol. Terrible Revenge": the return of Yakov Petrovich Guro, the funeral of Gogol and the battle with the Dark Horseman.''


Cast

* Alexander PetrovNikolai Vasilyevich Gogol *
Yevgeny Stychkin Yevgeny Alekseevich Stychkin (russian: Евге́ний Алексе́евич Сты́чкин; born 10 June 1974) is a Russian actor and director known for his roles in '' God Loves Caviar'' and ''Trotsky''. Biography Yevgeny Stychkin was born ...
— head of the police department, Alexander Khristoforovich Binkh *Artyom Suchkov — scribe Slasher *
Taisiya Vilkova Taisiya Aleksandrovna Vilkova (russian: Таи́сия Алекса́ндровна Вилко́ва; born October 25, 1996) is a Russian actress. She appeared in over 30 films. Biography Taisiya was born in Moscow on October 25, 1996, to actor ...
— Elizaveta (Lisa) Danishevskaya *Julia Franz — daughter of the miller Oksana *
Yan Tsapnik Yan Yurevich Tsapnik (russian: Ян Ю́рьевич Ца́пник; born 15 August 1968) is a Soviet and Russian theatre and film actor. Yan appeared in more than 200 films. Biography Early life Yan Tsapnik was born in Irkutsk, Russian SFSR, Sov ...
— doctor-pathologist Leopold Leopoldovich Bomgart *Eugene — full servant of Gogol Yakim *Sergey Badyuk — Blacksmith Vakula *
Artyom Tkachenko Artyom Valeryevich Tkachenko (russian: Артём Валерьевич Ткаченко; born April 30, 1982) is a Russian film and theater actor. Biography He engaged in the theater studio under the direction of Boris Beinenson. After school h ...
— Alexey Danishevsky *Martha Timofeeva — daughter of the blacksmith Vakula Vasilina *
Kirill Polukhin Kirill Alekseevich Polukhin (russian: Кирилл Алексеевич Полухин; born 3 May 1969) is a Soviet and Russian film, stage, and television actor. Early life Polukhin was born in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint P ...
— sorcerer-basurman Basavryuk *Alexey Vertkov — Homa Brutus *Ksenia Razina — Ulyana *Svetlana Kireeva — Khristina *Valery Rybin — The Dark Horseman *Yulia Marchenko — Gogol's mother Maria Gogol-Yanovskaya *Andrey Astrakhantsev — father of Gogol Vasily Gogol-Yanovsky *Anvar Libabov — noseless


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* {{Sreda Films based on Viy (story) Russian horror films Russian fantasy films 2018 fantasy films 2018 horror films Television series by Sreda Russian dark fantasy films