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:

Tuesday 18.03.2008 AT 19:00

Monday 17.03.2008 AT 20:00

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:

Thursday 20.03.2008 AT 21:00

Wednesday 19.03.2008 AT 19:00

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:

Thursday 20.03.2008 AT 19:00

Wednesday 19.03.2008 AT 21:00

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:

Wednesday 26.03.2008 AT 21:00

Tuesday 25.03.2008 AT 19:00

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.

b/w, 82 min

PROJECTION:

Wednesday 26.03.2008 AT 19:00

Tuesday 25.03.2008 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

This film was made at Stalin’s request and he asked for a “Ukrainian Tchapaiev” (he had in mind the film made by Sergei and Georgi Vasiliev in 1934). It is a biography of Nikolai Shchors, Bolshevik icon of Ukrainian origin. During the filming of this film Dovzhenko had to have all of his creative ideas submitted and approved by the highly positioned Stalin’s associates.

b/w, 92 min

PROJECTION:

Friday 28.03.2008 AT 21:00

Thursday 27.03.2008 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

Dovzhenko’s first film in color follows the life of a Russian horticulturalist Ivan Michurin, from his modest beginnings, conflict with the church and finally creation of more than 3,000 plant variations. His main professional opponent is professor Kartashov. The film pays respect to Boslhevik revolutionaries without whose help Michurin would not have succeeded.

color

PROJECTION:

Friday 28.03.2008 AT 19:00

Thursday 27.03.2008 AT 21:00