Earth screening | Ukrainian film festival 2024
Date and time:
Sunday 22 September, 2024
15:00 - 16:30
Location:
Curzon Soho
99 Shaftesbury Avenue
London
W1D 5DY
22 September 2023 | 3:00pm
Director: Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Genre: Drama Year: 1930 Duration: 83 min
Language: Silent film with intertitles
Age rating: 12
Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s Earth is the most renowned Ukrainian film and a masterpiece of world cinema. It was named one of the top ten silent films by The Guardian and The Observer. This avant-garde film was banned just nine days after its release in the USSR and received recognition in Ukraine only after Dovzhenko’s death.
The film depicts a Ukrainian village on the brink of collectivisation. Vasyl, the leader of the activist youth, strives to involve the villagers in the collective farm movement while awaiting a technological marvel: a tractor, symbolising the new era. Dovzhenko transforms the story of class struggle into a universal philosophical parable about life and death.
The musical score is composed and performed by the band DakhaBrakha, commissioned by the Dovzhenko Centre.
See the full Ukrainian film festival 2024: Reflections.
We will take photos and videos during the event. Unless you let us know otherwise, we might share them on the Ukrainian Institute London’s website and social media channels.
