Zvenigora
An old Ukrainian man protects and searches for a legendary treasure in the midst of political upheavals.
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Released
- 1928
- Country
- Soviet Union
Details
Release year: 1928
Storyline
An old Ukrainian man protects and searches for a legendary treasure in the midst of political upheavals.
Top credits
Nikolai Nademsky — Grandpa, General
Semyon Svashenko — Timoshka - first grandson- Aleksandr Podorozhnyy — Pavel - second grandson
- Polina Sklyar-Otava — Oksana, Roksana
Did you know
• The film was restored in 1973 at the Mosfilm studio with the assistance of Dovzhenko's widow, film director Yuliya Solntseva.
• Shortly after its release in 1928, the film was removed from distribution for an unknown reason.
• In the 2012 Sight & Sound Directors Poll of the Greatest Films of All Time, Guy Maddin put Zvenigora on his top ten list along with such films as Malick's The Tree of Life, Buñuel's L'Age d'Or, and Vigo's Zero de Conduite.
User reviews
Avant-garde folk epic of Soviet-era Ukraine
A challenge, but a very worthy one
Fascinating for Silent & Russian film enthusiasts - others, probably not.
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Silent, Mono
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- Color
- Black and White
