Zvenigora
An old man tells his grandson of a legendary treasure buried beneath the hills of Zvenigora, setting in motion a sweeping cinematic poem that intertwines Ukrainian folklore, history, and revolution.
From the archive
I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. The first of his "Ukraine Trilogy", writer and director Alexander Dovzhenko felt that this movie was his most patriotic, though it's more avant-garde rather than propaganda. The picture occasionally makes it onto lists of greatest films of all time and is almost universally regarded as a classic. It follows an elderly Ukrainian man who is searching for a legendary treasure in the mountains as political revolution rages around him.
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Zvenigora (1928) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. The uploader declared an explicit licence, linked in the source panel. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- Oleksandr Dovzhenko
- Starring
- Mykola Nademskyi, Semyon Svashenko, Les Podorozhniy, Polina Skliar-Otava, Heorhiy Astafyev, Leonid Barbe, Nikolay Charov, Vladimir Lanskoy
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