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Svenigora
/ Der verzauberte Wald / The Enchanted Forest
UdSSR (Ukraine) / USSR (Ukraine) 1927/28
86 MIN (18 b/s) / 35mm, s/w, Stummfilm mit russischen ZT und deutschen
UT
REGIE / DIRECTOR: Oleksandr Dovženko
Buch/Screenplay: Michail Johanson, Jurtik Tjutjunik Kamera/Cinematography:
B. Saveljev
Ausstattung/Art Director: V. Kricevskij
Darsteller/Cast: Nikolaj Nademskij, Semjon Svašcenko, Oleksandr
Podorožnyj, H. Astafjev, I. Seljuk, L. Barbe
Produktion/Production: WUFKU, Odessa
Caligari: 11.04. 15.30 Uhr
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Svenigora
is the name of the Ucrainian grass steppe between Kiev and the Zaporožian
Setsch. With its graves and ancient stone statues, where the Zaporožian
cossacks fought against Tatars and Poles, and where during the civil war
the "Whites" fought the "Reds", it is a mythical place to the Ucrainians.
In his first long feature film, Oleksandr Dovženko, the masterful director
of the poetic-avantgardistic Soviet cinema, links ancient legends of the
enchanted treasure and a 1000-year-old immortal treasure hunter with the
concrete civil war history of his time. The 1000-year-old grandfather
has two sons: Pavlo, who rejects everything new and wants to find the
treasure only for himself, and Timosh, the revolutionary soldier who strives
for happiness for everybody. The film mixes epic, poetic, and authentic
aspects and repeatedly blurs the boundaries between truth and phantasy,
reality and surrealism.
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