Anathema

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Cast & crew

SSergei GippiusDirectorStepan Krylovas Deacon OlympiusIgor Efimovas studentNikolay Gavrilovas the DeanAleksandr Afanasevas merchantLyubov MalinovskayaFyodor Nikitinas liberalPavel Pervushinas wood cutterTamara Timofeevaas townswomanArkadi Trusovas merchantYevgeni Grigoryevas gentleman in the churchLev Stepanovas church choristerKlavdiya Fadeevaas deacon’s wifeSvetlana Mazovetskayaas lady donating to the poor (uncredited)Nikolai Simonovas voiceover

Anathema across IJR

• “Any prowling maniac would have had more than his work cut out if he had accosted Anathema Device. She was a witch, after all. And precisely because she was a witch, and therefore sensible, she put little faith in protective amulets and spells; she saved it all for a foot-long bread knife which she kept in her belt.”

• “When most people said "I'm psychic, you see," they meant "I have an overactive but unoriginal imagination/wear black nail varnish/ talk to my budgie"; when Anathema said it, it sounded as though she was admitting to a hereditary disease which she'd much prefer not to have.”

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