Zvenigora
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Drama. Fantasy
A silent revolutionary epic and a remarkable avant-garde film, Zvenigora - 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. The film blends both lyricism and politics and uses its central construct to build a montage praising Ukrainian ... [+]