{{Infobox film | name = Werewolf Hour | image = Werewolf Hour.jpg | caption = | director = Igor Shevchenko | producer = | writer = Sergey Chetvertkov<br>Vadim Ermolin | starring = {{Plainlist| * Mikhail Pakhomenko * Aleksandr Baluev * Marina Starykh }} | music = Artemiy Artemiev | cinematography = Aleksandr Lobeev
| editing = | studio = Tonis | distributor = | runtime = 87 min. | released = {{Film date|1990|06}} | country = Soviet Union | language = Russian | budget = | gross = }}
'''''Werewolf Hour''''' ({{langx|ru|Час оборотня|Chas oborotnya}}) is a 1990 Soviet horror film directed by Igor Shevchenko.<ref name="kp">[https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/421324/ Werewolf Hour] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220427023533/https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/421324/ |date=2022-04-27 }} at the KinoPoisk</ref>
The film was considered lost for over 30 years.<ref name=kp/><ref>{{cite web | website = HorrorZone | author = Феликс Кривенцов | title = Утерянный советский хоррор «Час оборотня»: найден, отреставрирован, уже на ЗУ! | date = 2021-04-28 | accessdate = 2021-06-24 | url = https://horrorzone.ru/page/uterjannyj-rossijskij-horror-chas-oborotnja-najden-otrestavrirovan-uzhe-na-zu-video | archive-date = 2021-05-10 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210510044307/https://horrorzone.ru/page/uterjannyj-rossijskij-horror-chas-oborotnja-najden-otrestavrirovan-uzhe-na-zu-video | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book
| author = Алексей Холодный, Александр Поздеев, Алексей Петров | title = Русский хоррор | date = 2022-08-31 | publisher = Litres | isbn = 9785044619128 | accessdate = | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=7ZaGEAAAQBAJ&dq=%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81+%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BD%D1%8F+1990&pg=PT176}}</ref>
==Plot== 50 year old journalist Kovalev finally gets the chance to become the editor-in-chief of the newspaper. Not wanting to tempt fate, the hero turns to the party organizer for support. And then something unexpected happens, Kovalev's ankle is bitten by a dog, and he becomes a werewolf. Turning into a terrible dog at night, Kovalev has been prowling the city ever since and instilling fear in his readers. Policeman Vasily, the son of an unfortunate journalist, is entrusted to find and neutralize the beast.<ref name=kp/>
==Cast== * Mikhail Pakhomenko as Grigory Maksimovich Kovalev<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.kp40.ru/news/gorod_oblast/6985/|title = Михаил Пахоменко: «Я человек несомневающийся»|date = 2010-06-23|access-date = 2023-03-28|archive-date = 2020-12-04|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201204142314/https://www.kp40.ru/news/gorod_oblast/6985/|url-status = live}}</ref> * Aleksandr Baluev as Vasily Kovalev * Marina Starykh as Taya * Sergey Bystritsky as Gena<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gosfilmofond.ru/films/356452/|title=Час оборотня. Госфильмофонд России|date=|access-date=2023-03-28|archive-date=2023-03-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328225715/https://gosfilmofond.ru/films/356452/|url-status=live}}</ref> * Larisa Borodina as Claudia ==Critical response== According to a columnist for Darker Magazine, Shevchenko's film is distinguished by a gloomy atmosphere and an unsettling soundtrack in the spirit of Dario Argento's ''Suspiria'', as well as sexual scenes unusual for Soviet cinema and special effects of the main character's transformation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://darkermagazine.ru/page/klyki-i-partbilet|title=Клыки и партбилет|date=2021-10-10|access-date=2023-03-28|archive-date=2023-03-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328225717/https://darkermagazine.ru/page/klyki-i-partbilet|url-status=live}}</ref>
Film critic Alexander Shpagin wrote in the Iskusstvo Kino in 1992: ''Werewolf Hour'' a typical example of Russian horror. An almost documentary recreated environment of a small provincial town, where life seems to be like life. But little by little, you are seized by a state of anxiety, woven from a disintegrated way of life, general anger, total uselessness. As a result, the hero turns into an ominous werewolf dog, as if sublimating with this gesture all the vileness of life here.<ref>{{Cite book|url = https://fantlab.ru/blogarticle72459|title = Час оборотня|date = 2021-05-04|archive-date = 2023-03-28|access-date = 2023-03-28|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230328225714/https://fantlab.ru/blogarticle72459|url-status = live}}</ref>
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== External links == * {{IMDb title|id=1651119}} * [https://www.soviet-movies.ru/Reviews/Chas_oborotnya.html Werewolf Hour]. Encyclopedia of Soviet Cinema * Miron Chernenko. [https://www.andergas.com/?_=%2F%40bosafos-na-kladbische-veter-svischet-ili-amnistiya-dlya-vampirov%23FW2C9%2F6LEIT6N9QO2nY%3D На кладбище ветер свищет», или Амнистия для вампиров]
Category:1990 films Category:1990 Soviet films Category:1990 Russian-language films Category:1990 horror films Category:Soviet horror films Category:Rediscovered Soviet films Category:1990s rediscovered films Category:Films about werewolves Category:Films about journalists