
Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Regarded as a silent revolutionary epic Dovzhenko&s initial film in his " Ukraine Trilogy" (along with Arsenal & Earth) is almost religious in its tone & is one of the most remarkable avant-garde films of an exuberantly experimental period The film wonderfully blends both lyricism & politics & uses its central construct to build a montage praising Ukrainian industrialisation attacking the European bourgeoisie celebrating the beauty of the Ukrainian steppe & re-telling ancient folklore A grandfather fills the head of his grandson with stories of a legendary Scythian treasure & the boy spends the rest of his life trying to find it The unique style is modernist in its approach & disregards the more traditional storytelling devices The captivating dreamlike cinematography is reminiscent of Eisenstein Pudovkin Protazanov & Kuleshov yet Zvenigora is wholley unique to Dovzhenko Director Alexander Dovzhenko Certificate 12 years & over Year 1928 Languages Silent Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 31 minutes (approx)