Dovzhenko referred to Zvenigora as “unusually complicated in structure, eclectic in form … a catalogue of all my creative abilities.” Anchored in a legendary tale of the search for buried treasure in Zvenigora mountain, the film proceeds to take in centuries of Ukrainian history and folklore through a series of unexpected jumps between time periods and stories. A visually exhilarating mixture of the mythical and the modern, it ultimately arrives (by train) at an ode to industrialization. Zvenigora was the third and last Dovzhenko silent to receive a new score by Ovchinnikov.