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20 Hryven Oleksandr Dovzhenko
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2014 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a portrait of the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleksandr Dovzhenko to the left, rendered in a stylized artistic manner. A diagonal legend ОЛЕКСАНДР ДОВЖЕНКО (Oleksandr Dovzhenko) inscribes the central field, while his life dates 1894–1956 appear to the right against the background of a motion picture film strip. Above the composition, conventionalized images of birds are depicted, symbolizing the poetic and lyrical vision characteristic of the artist's cinematic work. |
| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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Dovzhenko's 1930 film Zemlya (Earth) was banned by Soviet authorities shortly after release for being insufficiently ideological — a charge that followed him for much of his career despite his genuine attempts to work within the system. Ukraine has periodically reclaimed him as a national cultural figure precisely because Soviet censors spent decades trying to minimize him.
The National Bank's 2014 release date places this coin in the months surrounding the Euromaidan revolution and Russia's annexation of Crimea — a period when Ukrainian cultural identity became sharply politicized.