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Virunga
Directed by
Orlando von Einsiedel
Not Rated
2014
90m
Documentary
,
War
8.1
100%
92%
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A team of brave individuals risk their lives to protect the last mountain gorillas.
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Cast of Virunga
André Bauma
Emmanuel de Merode
Mélanie Gouby
Rodrigue Mugaruka Katembo
Vianney Kazarama
Orlando von Einsiedel
Director / Writer / Producer
Joanna Natasegara
Producer
Virunga Ratings & Reviews
Moveable Fest
Stephen Saito
"Virunga" crackles with excitement as much as incitement as it vividly allows the audience to experience the park rangers' struggle to preserve their country's fragile infrastructure firsthand.
Movie Mezzanine
Casey Cipriani
It is a saddening look at the environmental consequences of corporate expansion and the innocent lives and creatures lost because of money.
TheWrap
Steve Pond
The result is gorgeous and wrenching, the indelible chronicle of a impossible but essential fight.
Variety
Ronnie Scheib
With enough action, pathos, suspense, venal villains, stalwart heroes and endangered gorillas for a dozen fiction films, von Einsiedel's extraordinary documentary Virunga lays out the complex of deadly forces threatening the titular national park...
Shadow and Act
Zeba Blay
Virunga's biggest strength lies in never attempting to be one kind of documentary. There's an element of uncertainty, a sense of anxiety that one feels watching the film as at any moment it feels that something will go horribly wrong.
The Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
Powerful doc pairs naturalism with political turmoil.
The Film Stage
John Fink
Virunga is a potentially paradigm-shifting entry in the genre that deserves the kind of support and attention Blackfish and The Cove received.
Eye for Film
Amber Wilkinson
What makes von Einsiedel's film work so well is the human - and gorilla - face that he gives to the problem.
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
John Beifuss
The publicity campaign has focused on the movie's beautiful and endlessly watchable gorillas, but director Orlando von Einseidel's film is more 'Citizenfour' than Animal Planet: It's not so much a wildlife lament as an activist expos.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
An inspiring documentary about three Africans in the Congo who demonstrate compassion and heroism in the midst of chaos and civil war.
Common Sense Media
Renee Schonfeld
Outstanding but shattering docu set in war-torn Congo.
amNewYork
Robert Levin
The conflict in the Congo, as depicted here, is more than your everyday fight. It's a war for the soul of this place, on powerful, urgent display.
We Got This Covered
Anthony Marcusa
A powerful documentary and gripping story, Virunga is a deftly-executed film that follows one of the most biologically diverse regions on Earth as violent militias and greedy companies look to take advantage of an unstable government.
Los Angeles Times
Sheri Linden
Urgent investigative report and unforgettable drama, "Virunga" is a work of heart-wrenching tenderness and heart-stopping suspense.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
"Virunga" wrenches a startlingly lucid narrative from a sickening web of bribery, corruption and violence.
Village Voice
Alan Scherstuhl
The fights Virunga documents couldn't feel more urgent. This is one of the year's most compelling and important films.
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
It's a first-rate call to action, but also a thrilling piece of filmmaking.
Slant Magazine
Kenji Fujishima
This is muckraking journalism that moves confidently with the brio of an action thriller.
Nonfics (Substack)
Daniel Walber
Von Einsiedel has taken the whirlwind of environmental conservation, civil war, investigative journalism and the hegemony of the neocolonial oil industry and brought them together with admirable confidence.
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