Baba Yaga (film)
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| Directed by | Corrado Farina |
| Screenplay by | Corrado Farina |
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Valentina by Guido Crepax |
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| Music by | Piero Umiliani |
| Cinematography | Aiace Parolin |
| Edited by | Guilio Berruti |
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Baba Yaga is a 1973 horror film directed by Corrado Farina and based on the Guido Crepax's Valentina comic series. The film stars Carroll Baker, Isabelle De Funès and George Eastman. It is about a Milanese photographer Valentina Rosselli who meets a middle-aged seductress who calls herself "Baba Yaga". She shows an ostensible sexual interest in Valentina and gives her a doll dressed in leather fetish wear. It is soon revealed that Baba Yaga has started to control Valentina through the doll.
Valentina Rosselli (Isabelle De Funès) is a Milanese photographer with a knack for controversial shoots. Her friend and lover, Arno (George Eastman), is a director. One night, on her way home, Valentina gets struck by a car driven by a middle-aged blonde (Carroll Baker). She introduces herself as "Baba Yaga" and tells Valentina their meeting was pre-ordained. After she drives Valentina home, she snatches the clip from her , saying she needs a personal object from her and that she will return it tomorrow. Intrigued and disturbed Valentina crashes for the night and has a series of strange and vivid dreams. As promised, Baba Yaga returns Valentina's garter clip the next day. She fondles a camera Valentina uses and invites her to her old home to take some photographs. Valentina visits the woman's house where she is given doll dressed in bondage gear. Valentina's life suddenly becomes full of strange occurrences. After discovering Baba Yaga is somehow responsible for that, Valentina decides to go back to her house and confront her.
Baba Yaga was an adaptation of Guido Crepax's comic series Valentina. Crepax had previously done film work with Tinto Brass who commissioned him to the storyboards for his thriller film Deadly Sweet. Brass had at one point considered adapting the story La forza di gravita from the Valentina comics to a film, but abandoned the idea when the felt that it would be impossible to portray Crepax's visual sensibilities to a film. Director Corrado Farina had admired Crepax's work, going as for to make a short documentary film Freud a fumetti (1970) which explored his comics. Farina noted that he had been disappointed by other works based on comics as "none of the filmmakers who embarked on that task had been able to deepen the relationship between the language of comics and that of film." Farina decided to explore the fantastical elements of Crepax's comics opposed to the more erotic overtones.
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