Lazar Bodik

During the agrarian collectivization process in the Soviet Union, Vasyl, a peasant member of the youth division of the Communist Party, gets a tractor with the help of a local party organization and plows private boundaries on kulak fields. However, this enthusiasm will cost him dearly.

The school year is over. The children of factory workers are going to pioneer camp. Dense forests, rivers, green meadows — everything contributes to a healthy vacation. Only one circumstance upsets the pioneers — the village boys greeted the townspeople with hostility.

Wartime documentary by Dovzhenko and Solntseva.

On the upbringing of a sense of camaraderie in Soviet schoolchildren.

Dovzhenko and Solntseva's documentary about the Bukovina region.

Cheered up by the revolutionary zeal, courage and energy of their leader, Nikolai Alexandrovitch Shchors, in 1919 the peasants and workers' groups gathered in the civil war- devastated Ukraine, to defeat the foreign conquerors and enemies of the revolution. However, it does not take long until a new danger threatens: this time the Polish Pans enter Ukraine, and General Dragomirov marches to Kiev. Shchors, however, gathers the revolutionary forces of the country and brings them to a victorious counter-attack.

An old man tells his grandson of a legendary treasure buried beneath the hills of Zvenigora, setting in motion a sweeping cinematic poem that intertwines Ukrainian folklore, history, and revolution.