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Zvenigora
A thousand years of Ukrainian myth compressed into one hillside where treasure is always buried and never found.
What
A four-colour lithographed one-sheet, 108 by 72.5 cm, issued by VUFKU in an edition of 15,000 and printed in Moscow at the Mospoligraf works.
Why
Zvenigora was Alexander Dovzhenko's breakthrough and the film that made the Ukrainian studio system matter to Moscow. The poster belongs to the montage school's central argument: that a picture could be assembled from fragments rather than painted as a scene.
Notice
How the figures are cut and stacked rather than posed together, so the eye is asked to travel between them instead of resting on any one.
“A buried hoard advertised in flat colour, promising everything and locating nothing.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Zvenigora (1927), dir. Alexander Dovzhenko
- Country / studio
- USSR · VUFKU
- Designer
- Leonid Voronov and Mikhail Evstafiev
- Printer / stone
- Mospoligraf, Rabochee Delo typolithography and offset works, Moscow
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- Soviet lithographed film poster, 1928
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
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