Films in cycle
The Earth
(Zemlya, 1930)
Directed by: Aleksandr Dovženko
PHOTOGRAPHY: Danjil Demutskij
Synopsis:
Dovzhenko’s last silent film portrays the problem of the agrarian reform and collectivization through a story about a rebel leader who gets killed by a ruthless landowner. This most famous film from Dovzhenko’s Ukrainian trilogy with its outstanding photography pays respect to Ukrainian nature and life of peasants.
b/w, silent, 75 min
PROJECTION:
Wednesday 19.02.2014 AT 21:00
Tuesday 18.02.2014 AT 19:00
Zvenigora
(1928)
Directed by: Aleksandr Dovženko
PHOTOGRAPHY: Boris Savelijev
Synopsis:
With its complex structure and contrasting of folklore themes with contemporary political and rural motives, this film portrays modern Ukraine. A peasant tells his grandson about the legend of a treasure buried on the mountain Zvenigora and about adventures of which he is the hero. Skipping to present times, the story turns to the October Revolution and we find two of the grandsons on opposite sides: Pavlo, a dreamer and Ukranian nationalist, and Timosh, a Bolshevik and a soldier.
b/w, silent, 90 min
PROJECTION:
Wednesday 19.02.2014 AT 19:00
Tuesday 18.02.2014 AT 21:00
Arsenal
(1929)
Directed by: Aleksandr Dovženko
PHOTOGRAPHY: Danjil Demutskij
Synopsis:
In this film Dovzhenko portrays how WW I and the Russian Revolution influenced his Ukrainian fellow-countrymen. Timoš, a recently demobilized soldier, is returning home after having survived a train accident. He arrives home at the time of celebration of Ukrainian freedom, but instead of celebrating he starts to question the local authorities. Soon, the situation gets complicated in his former work place - Arsenal, the Kiev ammunition factory.
b/w, silent, 90 min
PROJECTION:
Saturday 22.02.2014 AT 21:00
Thursday 20.02.2014 AT 19:00
Ivan
(1932)
Directed by: Aleksandr Dovženko
PHOTOGRAPHY: Danjil Demutsky, Jurij Yekelčik
Synopsis:
The main character in this film is Ivan, an uneducated teenage boy from a village, who is, together with his father, forced to leave his life on the farm and look for a job because of industrialization. With lots of enthusiasm he starts working on the construction of the Dniepr dam but soon gets disappointed when his foreman, without even paying any attention, grades his work as unsatisfactory. At first Ivan is revolted but soon he realizes that it is better to get some education and starts atte...
b/w, 102 min
PROJECTION:
Friday 21.02.2014 AT 19:00
Thursday 20.02.2014 AT 21:00
Aerograd
(1935)
Directed by: Aleksandr Dovženko
PHOTOGRAPHY: Dmitrij Kabalevski
Synopsis:
Aerograd is a new Soviet military station with a strategically positioned airport being built in eastern Siberia and it is of great interest to the government. Soon, tension arises between the workers who are building it and a religious sect that threatens to support the samurai warriors who are fighting for the same area. Relations between Japan and Russia become strained.