Zvenigora
- 1928
- 1h 49m
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
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An old Ukrainian man protects and searches for a legendary treasure in the midst of political upheavals.An old Ukrainian man protects and searches for a legendary treasure in the midst of political upheavals.An old Ukrainian man protects and searches for a legendary treasure in the midst of political upheavals.
Nikolai Nademsky
- Grandpa
- (as N. Nademskiy)
- …
Semyon Svashenko
- Timoshka - first grandson
- (as S. Svashenko)
Aleksandr Podorozhnyy
- Pavel - second grandson
- (as L. Podorozhnyy)
Polina Sklyar-Otava
- Oksana
- (as P. Otawa)
- …
Georgi Astafyev
- Scythian leader
- (uncredited)
Leonid Barbe
- Monk
- (uncredited)
Nikolay Charov
- Pavel's Friend
- (uncredited)
Vladimir Lanskoy
- Spectator
- (uncredited)
Mariya Parshina
- Timoshka's wife
- (uncredited)
A. Simonov
- Fat Officer
- (uncredited)
Vladimir Uralskiy
- Peasant
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe film was restored in 1973 at the Mosfilm studio with the assistance of Dovzhenko's widow, film director Yuliya Solntseva.
- Alternate versionsIn 2011, the film was digitally restored and added with music score by the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre. Running time of this version is 97 minutes. The music composed and performed by FUTUREthno, a Ukrainian-Polish band playing "ethnic music of the future". It was released in 2011, as part of the "Ukrainian Re-Vision" DVD-collection. Because the original Ukrainian intertitles were lost when they were cut and replaced with Russian intertitles in the mid-1930s, this restoration used Dovzhenko's script (published in "O. Dovzhenko's Works", 5 volumes, Kyiv: Dnipro, 1985) to reinstate the Ukrainian intertitles.
- ConnectionsEdited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une vague nouvelle (1999)
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Ambitious But Flawed Surreal Epic
Full review on my blog max4movies: Zvenigora is a Soviet silent black and white drama about a mysterious old man who spends centuries to find a legendary treasure buried in the middle of the Ukraine. The movie is essentially an epic fictionalized retelling of the country's history. Using recurring characters, who should be seen as symbols or embodied ideologies, several historical struggles are retold (e.g., the invasion of the Poles in the 18th century or the October Revolution in 1917). However, as there is no real plot to tie the several episodes together, the movie all too often feels fragmented and disjointed. Together with the symbolic dialogues and that at least some basic knowledge of Ukrainian and/or Soviet history is needed to understand certain scenes, the overall movie alienates many viewers. And while the production values and the cinematography are often impressive and the mix of historical events and surreal elements is ambitious, Zvenigora falls short in presenting a coherent journey.
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- The Enchanted Place
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- Runtime1 hour 49 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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