- Zvenigora
Infobox_Film
name = Звенигора (Zvenigora/Zvenyhora)
caption = Film poster
director =Alexander Dovzhenko
producer =
writer =Mike (Mykhailo) Johansen Yurko Tyutyunnyk
Alexander Dovzhenko
starring =Semyon Svashenko Mykola Nademsky Georgi Astafyev Les Podorozhnij
music =
cinematography =Boris Zavelev
A. Pankratyev
V. Horytsyn
editing =
distributor = VUFKU-Odessa
released =1928 (Soviet Union )
runtime = 65 min.
language =silent film
Russian intertitles
budget =
amg_id = 1:56224
imdb_id = 0019611 |"Zvenigora", or "Zvenyhora" ( _ru. Звeнигopа) (
1928 ) is aSoviet 1928silent film by Ukrainian directorAlexander Dovzhenko .Regarded as a silent revolutionary epic, Dovzhenko's initial film in his "Ukraine Trilogy" (along with Arsenal and Earth) is almost religious in its tone, relating a millennium of Ukrainian history through the story of an old man who tells his grandson about a treasure buried in a mountain. Although Dovzhenko referred to Zvenigora as his "party membership card," it is full of Ukrainian myth, lore and superstition. The magical recurrences and parallels used in the storytelling also invites comparisons to
Nikolai Gogol .Dovzhenko's "Ukraine Trilogy" is seen by many as three of the greatest films ever made.External links
*Ray Uzwyshyn's Silent Trilogy Study [http://members.aol.com/vladytwo/Dissertation.html See Part II. Zvenyhora (1928): Ethnography, Modernity, Marx]
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