Silent Trilogy Filmography

Introduction |Zvenyhora (1928) | Arsenal (1929) | Earth (1930) | Conclusions

Filmography | Earth Chronology | Bibliographies | Contact

 


(This playlist contains links to the entire trilogy: Zvenyhora, Arsenal, Earth)

 

 

 

 

 

The Silent Trilogy

 

(For larger filmographies of Dovzhenko’s entire canon see Carynnyk, Marco Alexander Dovzhenko The Poet as Filmmaker. Cambridge: MIT, 1973 or Nebesio, Bohdan. Alexander Dovzhenko: A Guide to Published Sources Edmonton: CIUS Press, 1995)

 

 
 

Zvenyhora

 

(Russ: Zvenigora) 6 parts, 1799 m. VUFKU (Odessa), 1927.

 

Director: Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Scenario: Maik Johansen, Yuri Tiutiunnyk (Iurtyk), Camera: Boris Zavelev, Artistic Director: Vasyl (Hryhorovych) Krychevs’kyi, Asst. Director: Lazar Bodyk, M. Zubov, Cherniaev, Asst. Cam: V. Goritsyn. Cast: Grandfather, General: Mykola Nadems’kyi, Tymish: Semen Svashenko, Pavlo: Les Podorozhnyi, Scythian Leader: G. Astafev, Otaman: I. Seliuk, Monk: L. Barbe, Tymish’s Wife: M. Parshina, Oksana: Polina Otava, Adjutant: Mikhalev, Peasant: V. Uralskii, Army Officer: A. Simonov, Student: Dovbush, Pavlo’s assistant: G. Charov.

  
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Arsenal

 

(Russ: ianvarskoe Vostannie v Kieve v 1918: The January Uprising in Kyiv, 1918) 8 parts, 1820 m. VUFKU (Odessa) 1928.

 

Scenario and Director: Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Camera: Danylo Demutskyi, Art Director: Iosif Shpinel, Volodymyr Meller, Music (For Performance) Ihor Belza, Assistant Director: Aleksei Kapler, Lazar Bodyk. Cast: Tymish, Semen Svashenko, German Soldier: Amvrosii Buchma, Officer and Nationalist, Mykola Nademskyi, Symon Petliura: N. Kuchyns’kyi, Actor Sadovskyi: O. Merlatti, German Officer: D. Erdman, German Soldier: S. Petrov, Red Army Soldier, G. Kharkov, Nurse: T. Vagner, Ukrainian Nationalist: K. Mykhailovskyi, Soldier: B. Zagorskii, Tsar Nikolai II, A. Evdakov.

 

  
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Earth

 

(Ukr. and Russ.: Zemlia: English early title: Soil, alt. title: “Song of a New Life”) 6 Parts, 1704 m. VUFKU (Kyiv, 1930)

 

Scenario and Director: Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Camera: Danylo Demutskyi, Art Director: Vasyl (Vasylovych) Krychevskyi. Asst. Director: Iuliia Solntsevna, Lazar Bodyk. Music (For Performance): Leonid Revutskyi. Cast: Opanas Trubenko: Stepan Shkurat, Vasyl, Opanas son: Semen Svashenko, Opanas’s daughter: Iuliia Solntseva, Natalka, Vasyl’s Fiancée, Elena Maksimova, Khoma: Bilokin: Petro Masokha, Arkhyp, Khoma’s Father: I. Franko, Priest: V. Mikhailov, Komsomol secretary: P. Petry, Peasant: O. Umanets, Young peasant woman: E. Bondina, Young Peasant: L. Liahenko, Grandfather Semen: Mykola Nadems’kyi.

  
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Introduction |Zvenyhora (1928) | Arsenal (1929) | Earth (1930) | Conclusions|

Filmography | Earth Chronology | Bibliographies| Contact