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Zvenigora

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Zvenigora
Film poster
Directed byAlexander Dovzhenko
Written byMaik "Mike" Johansen
Yurtyk (Yuri Tiutiunnyk)
Alexander Dovzhenko
StarringSemyon Svashenko
Nikolai Nademsky
Georgi Astafyev
Les Podorozhnij
CinematographyBoris Zavelev
Edited byAlexander Dovzhenko
Production
company
Distributed byMosfilm
Release date
  • 13 April 1928 (1928-04-13)
Running time
91 min.
CountrySoviet Union
Languagessilent film
Russian intertitles
Zvenigora (1928) by Alexander Dovzhenko

Zvenigora (Russian: Звeнигopа) is a 1928 Soviet silent film by Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko, first shown on 13 April 1928.[2] This was the fourth film by Dovzhenko, but the first one which was widely reviewed and discussed in the media. This was also the last film by Dovzhenko for which he was not the sole scriptwriter.

Cast

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Production

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The script was originally written by Maik "Mike" Johansen and Yurtyk (Yuri Tiutiunnyk), but eventually Dovzhenko heavily rewrote the script himself and removed Johansen and Tyutyunnyk's names from the screenplay and did not include them in the film credits.[2] Pavlo Nechesa, head of the Odesa film studio VUFKU (Ukrainian: Одеська кінфабрика ВУФКУ) recalls: ″We were discussing the screenplay for Zvenigora … Almost everyone was against the script … Dovzhenko said ″I’ll take and make …″. As a project, Zvenigora got its start in June 1927.[3]

Plot

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Regarded as a silent revolutionary epic, Dovzhenko's initial film in his Ukraine Trilogy (along with Arsenal and Earth) is almost religious in 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. The film mixes fiction and reality.

Although Dovzhenko referred to Zvenigora as his "party membership card",[2] the relationship between the individual and nature is the main theme of the film, which is highly atypical of Soviet cinema of the end of the 1920s with its avant-garde influences. Dovzhenko states that full submission to nature[clarification needed] made humanity powerless in the face of it, and understanding and control of nature is required to make progress. For him, the October Revolution brought about such an understanding.[4]

Reception

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In 1927, even before the film's release, the newspaper Kino (Cinema) sharply criticized the screenplay, calling it "bourgeois" and "nationalistic".[2]The film made the young director famous and made a great impression on Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin, but the innovative methods in the work of the director of the future VUFKU representatives in Moscow say about Zvenigora: "No one can understand anything."[citation needed] Eisenstein said after watching Zvenigora: “Today, for a moment, it was possible to dim the lantern of Diogenes: a man stood in front of us ...”, “Master of his face. Master of his genre. A master of his individuality… a man who created something new in cinema.”[citation needed]

In the early 1970s, the Anthology Film Archives selected the film for its collection of essential cinema.[5] In a 2008 survey by Seans magazine, Russian film critic Nikolai Izvolov [ru] listed Zvenigora third among his 10 favourite films.[6] In the 2012 Sight & Sound Director's Poll of the Greatest Films of All Time, Guy Maddin placed it on his top ten list, describing the film as "mind-bogglingly eccentric!"[7] In its 2021 list of the 100 best films in the history of Ukrainian cinema, the National Oleksandr Dovzhenko Film Centre placed Zvenigora at #19.[8]

References

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  1. ↑ "Національний центр Олександра Довженка". dovzhenkocentre.org. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Маевская, Тереза (13 April 2011). "Звенигора, ставшая Голгофой для Александра Довженко". Комментарии. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  3. ↑ "УКРАЇНСЬКЕ НІМЕ / UKRAINIAN RE-VISION by Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre - issuu". issuu.com. Archived from the original on 27 November 2016. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
  4. ↑ Довженко Александр Петрович (in Russian). Кирилл и Мефодий. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
  5. ↑ "Essential Cinema". Anthology Film Archives. Retrieved 20 May 2026.
  6. ↑ "Помогая Михалкову" [Helping Mikhalkov]. Seans (in Russian). 5 July 2012. ISSN 0136-0108. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2026.
  7. ↑ Maddin, Guy. "The Greatest Films Poll, Sight & Sound, 2012 Poll: Guy Maddin". BFI: Sight & Sound. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 25 August 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  8. ↑ Myronchuk, Roman (29 June 2021). "Топ 100: названі кращі фільми в історії українського кіно" [Top 100: the best films in the history of Ukrainian cinema named]. RBC-Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2 June 2026.

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