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Zvenigora
Zvenigora (Russian: Звeнигopа) is a 1928 Soviet silent film by
Zvenigora
Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko, first shown on April 13, 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.

Contents
1 Production
2 Content
3 Reception
4 References
5 Bibliography
6 External links

Film poster
Production Directed by Alexander
Dovzhenko
The script was originally written by Maike "Mike" Johansen and Yurtyk
(Yuri Tiutiunnyk), but eventually Dovzhenko heavily rewrote the script Written by Maike "Mike"
Johansen
himself and removed Johansen and Tyutyunnyk's names from the
Yurtyk (Yuri
screenplay and did not include them in the film credits.[2] Pavlo Nechesa,
Tiutiunnyk)
head of the Odessa film studio VUFKU (Ukrainian: Одеська кінфабрика Alexander
ВУФКУ) recalls: ″We were discussing the screenplay for Zvenigora … Dovzhenko
Almost everyone was against the script … Dovzhento said ″I’ll take and Semyon
Starring
make …″. As a project, Zvenigora got its start in June 1927.[3] Svashenko
Nikolai
Nademsky
Content Georgi
Regarded as a silent revolutionary epic, Dovzhenko's initial film in his Astafyev
Ukraine Trilogy (along with Arsenal and Earth) is almost religious in Les
Podorozhnij
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 Cinematography Boris Zavelev
film mixes fiction and reality. Although Dovzhenko referred to Zvenigora Edited by Alexander
as his "party membership card",[2] the relationship between the individual Dovzhenko
and nature is the main theme of the film, which is highly atypical of the Production VUFKU[1]
Soviet cinema of the end of the 1920s and its avant-garde influences. company
Dovzhenko states that full submission to nature made humanity Distributed by Mosfilm

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powerless in the face of nature, and understanding and control of nature is Release date April 13, 1928
required to make progress. For him, the October Revolution brought about
such an understanding.[4] Running time 91 min.
Country Soviet Union
Reception Language silent film
Russian
At the time of release, the film was widely reviewed in the press but
intertitles
generally regarded as not conforming with Soviet aesthetics. In 1927, even
before the film's release, the newspaper Kino (Cinema) sharply criticized the screenplay, calling it "bourgeois" and
"nationalistic".[2]

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!"[5]

References
1. "Національний центр Олександра Довженка" (http://www.dovzhenkocentre.org/). dovzhenkocentre.org. Retrieved
2016-12-01.
2. Маевская, Тереза (April 13, 2011). "Звенигора, ставшая Голгофой для Александра Довженко"
(http://comments.ua/life/246840-zvenigora-stavshaya-golgofoy.html). Комментарии. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
3. "УКРАЇНСЬКЕ НІМЕ / UKRAINIAN RE-VISION by Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre - issuu" (https://issuu.com
/dovzhenkocentre/docs/ukrainian_silent). issuu.com. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
4. Довженко Александр Петрович (http://www.km.ru/kino/encyclopedia/dovzhenko-aleksandr-petrovich) (in Russian).
Кирилл и Мефодий. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
5. Maddin, Guy. "The Greatest Films Poll, Sight & Sound, 2012 Poll: Guy Maddin" (http://explore.bfi.org.uk
/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/963). BFI: Sight & Sound. British Film Institute. Retrieved 19 October 2015.

Bibliography
Histoire du cinéma ukrainien (1896–1995), Lubomir Hosejko, Éditions à Dié, Dié, 2001, ISBN 978-2-908730-67-8,
traduit en ukrainien en 2005 : Istoria Oukraïnskovo Kinemotografa, Kino-Kolo, Kiev, 2005, ISBN 966-8864-00-X

External links
Zvenigora, Odessa Film Studios (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bBa4SdYwXA)
Zvenigora (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019611/) on IMDb
Zvenigora (https://archive.org/details/Zwenigora) is available for free download at the Internet Archive
Zvenigora (http://www.allmovie.com/movie/v56224) at AllMovie
Ray Uzwyshyn Zvenyhora: Ethnographic Modernism (http://rayuzwyshyn.net/dovzhenko/Zvenyhora.htm)

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