Zvenygora (1928) on Netflix
An old man tells his grandson Timoshka of a legendary treasure buried in the mountains at Zvenigora. He guards it through political upheaval, while Timoshka spends his life searching for it.
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Plot summary
Timoshka learns from his grandfather that a secret treasure lies buried deep in a mountain at Zvenigora. The old man protects it and keeps searching for it while political upheaval shakes the country, and Timoshka spends his life trying to find it. Fiction and reality mix as their story carries a millennium of Ukrainian history, from a Scythian leader to a monk, an ataman and a Cossack officer, and on to the days of the October Revolution. Pavel, the second grandson, and Oksana, a mountain princess, take part in the tale, and the peasants of the Ukrainian steppe appear as well.
Cast
- Polina Skliar-Otavaas Oksana / Roksana
- Heorhiy Astafyevas Scythian Leader (uncredited)
- Leonid Barbeas Monk(uncredited)
- Nikolay Charovas Pavel's Friend(uncredited)
- Maria Parshinaas Timoshka's Wife (uncredited)
- I. Selyukas Ataman(uncredited)
- Anastasii Symonovas Fat Officer (uncredited)
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Zvenygora (1928)
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- The script for Zvenigora was first written by Maik "Mike" Johansen and Yuri Tiutiunnyk, but Alexander Dovzhenko rewrote it so heavily that he removed both writers' names from the screenplay and left them out of the film's credits.
- In 1927, even before Zvenigora reached cinemas, the newspaper Kino (Cinema) sharply criticized its screenplay, calling it "bourgeois" and "nationalistic".
- Pavlo Nechesa, head of the Odesa film studio VUFKU, recalled that almost everyone at the studio was against the Zvenigora screenplay, and quoted Dovzhenko saying "I'll take and make …".
- Zvenigora was Alexander Dovzhenko's fourth film but the first of his to be widely reviewed and discussed in the media; it was also the last film he made without being the sole scriptwriter.
