Zvenigora

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Звенигора (Zvenigora/Zvenyhora)
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Directed by	Alexander Dovzhenko
Written by	Mike (Mykhailo) Johansen Yurko Tyutyunnyk Alexander Dovzhenko
Starring	Semyon Svashenko Mykola Nademsky Georgi Astafyev Les Podorozhnij
Cinematography	Boris Zavelev A. Pankratyev V. Horytsyn
Distributed by	VUFKU-Odessa
Release date(s)	1928 (Soviet Union)
Running time	65 min.
Language	silent film Russian intertitles
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Zvenigora, or Zvenyhora (Russian and Ukrainian: Звeнигopа) (1928) is a Soviet 1928 silent film by Ukrainian director Alexander 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.