A mystical drama based on a story by V. Korotkevich. The film is set in out-of-the-way Belarusian woodlands at the end of the 19th century. A young ethnographer, Andrej Bielarecki, comes here to research local folk legends… A film that justly claims to be the first Soviet mystical thriller. A gripping, suspenseful plot. Terrifying medieval legends turning to real horror. “‘Stach”’s been assigned a most honorable place in history, next to ‘Cat’s Eye’, ‘Night of the Living Dead’, and a masterpiece of the national sub-horror, the animation ‘Hazelnut Twig’.” (Denis Gorelov, “Izvestiya”)


Awards:
• 1st International Festival of Crime and Mystery Films in Cattolica (Italy) – First Prize, 1980
• International Festival of Fantasy Films in Paris (France) – Special Prize, 1980
• International Film Festival in Montreal (Canada) – Special Jury Award, 1980
• International Film Festival in Paris – Award and Honorary Diploma to Best Actress in a Supporting Role (actress V. Shendrikova), 1981
• International Film Festival in Los Angeles (USA) – Honorary Diploma to the film, 1982
• International Festival of Fantasy Films in Brussels (Belgium) “Passage-44” – First Prize, 1983

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Misticheskaya drama po motivam povesti V. Korotkevicha. Dejstvie kartiny razvorachivaetsya v gluhom belorusskom Polese v kontse XIX veka. Molodoj uchenyj-etnograf Andrej Beloretskij priezzhaet v eti mesta izuchat narodnye predaniya. On poselilsya v nebolshom pomeste, hozyajka kotorogo – poslednyaya predstavitelnitsa starinnogo dvoryanskogo roda – povedala strashnuyu istoriyu o korole Stahe, vremya ot vremeni uchinyayuschem dikuyu ohotu na starinnyj rod…
Film, po pravu pretenduyuschij na lavry pervogo sovetskogo misticheskogo trillera. Zahvatyvayuschij i napryazhennyj syuzhet. Strashnye srednevekovye legendy, stanovyaschiesya realnym uzhasom.
(Denis Gorelov «Izvestiya»)


Nagrady:
• I MKF detektivnyh i tainstvennyh filmov v Kattolike (Italiya) - Pervaya premiya, 1980
• MKF fantasticheskih filmov v Parizhe (Frantsiya) - Spetsialnyj priz, 1980
• MKF v Monreale (Kanada) - Spetsialnyj priz zhyuri, 1980
• MKF v Parizhe - Premiya i Pochetnyj diplom festivalya za luchshee ispolnenie vtoroj zhenskoj roli (aktrise V. SHendrikovoj), 1981
• MKF v Los-Andzhelese (SSHA) - Pochetnyj diplom filmu, 1982
• MKF nauchno-fantasticheskih filmov v Bryussele (Belgiya) «Passazh-44» - Pervyj priz, 1983


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