The Spanish Earth (1937)
1937 · 0h 53m · Documentary
Genres: Documentary
Joris Ivens’s advocacy documentary for the Republican cause intercuts a besieged Madrid with a nearby village digging an irrigation canal, linking the war to bread, land, and survival.
Director: Joris Ivens
Writers: Prudencio de Pereda, John Dos Passos, Archibald Macleish
Music by: Virgil Thomson
Cinematography: John Fernhout
Editor: Helen van Dongen
Cast
Manuel Azaña as Himself (President of Spain)José Díaz as Himself (Parliamentarian)Dolores Ibárruri as HerselfEnrique Lister as Himself (Republican Army)Commander Martinez de Aragón as Himself (Republican Army)Gustav Regler as Himself (German writer)Orson Welles as Narrator (voice)Ernest Hemingway as Narrator (voice)Jean Renoir as Narrator (voice)More like this
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