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Hedgehog Cakes: Sweet Weapon of Terror
In collaboration Mykhailo Bondariev and Vitalii Nemchenko (20ft Radio)
Video, 20’ 26”
2024
Hedgehog Cakes: The Sweet Weapon of Terror explores the intersection of historical and media-fueled trauma through the format of popular 2000s documentary TV shows that investigated true crime and speculative events of the past.
In the investigation, the team focuses on Nikolai Yezhov — a Soviet official who led the repressions of the 1930s, known as the Yezhovshchina.
Director: Zhenia Stepanenko
Screenwriters: Mykhailo Bondariev, Vitalii Nemchenko, Zhenia Stepanenko
Camera: Mykhailo Bondariev, Viktor Korchynski
Producer: Vitalii Nemchenko
Executive producer: Viktor Korchynski
Sound design: Artem Illin
Music: Kostyantyn Sokolovskyi
Silent Green, Berlin, Germany
2024
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