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Film · 2014

The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga

Directed by Jessica Oreck

  • 1 h 13 min
  • Documentary · Animation · History
  • USAUkraine
  • Released in the UK 29 September 2016
  • 7.5 Critics2 reviews

Synopsis

'The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga' directed by Jessica Oreck tells the present story after a Eastern Europe War occurred and destroy everything. This story leaves the haunted forests and full of fantasy like fairy tales and personal memories of each or bread crumbs that were scattered in some of these children's stories. 'The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga' tells the story as a whole, with a joinder, the stories that are told over and over again, retaining the credible and unconscious osmosis of ideas.

This documentary film that Jessica Oreck ('The Collector', 'Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys') focuses on forests and city of Ukraine to narrate as the war destroyed all that fantasy.

The essentials

Runtime
73 min1 hour and 13 minutes
How long is The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga?
1 hour and 13 minutes (73 minutes).
When was The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga released in the UK?
It was released in the UK on 29 September 2016.
Who directed The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga?
Jessica Oreck.
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Director
Jessica Oreck
Writers
Jessica Oreck
Producers
Jessica Oreck

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Reviews

All 2 reviews

What the critics say average 7.5 from 2

  • 8.0 VarietyRonnie Schelb Oreck spins a mesmerizing web that appropriates a wealth of disparate Eastern European images ? of mushrooms, farmers, falling trees and war-destroyed buildings ? to illustrate its lyrical discourse. Read
  • 7.0 The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck The film is a meditation on its themes, and as such is probably too amorphous for its own good. But Vanquishing nonetheless represents a typically audacious effort from an intriguing filmmaker whose… Read
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