"Shooting standing in a coffin it did not frighten": as shot the only Soviet horror film "Viy"

The idea of the screen version of the mystical story Gogol Nicholas belongs to the director and the director of a film studio "Mosfilm" to Pyryev Yvan. He charged to remove to two students of the High director's courses — to Yershov Konstantin and to Kropachev Georgy. However at the very beginning of work material finished shooting by them disappointed the film studio management, and on help urgently called the well-known film storyteller, the director Ptushko Alexander. He vigorously turned to work, having thought up...