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The Spanish Earth (1937)

The Spanish Earth (1937)

Documentary
Release Date: 1937, July 10
Directors: Joris Ivens
Countries: United States of America
Production: Contemporary Historians Inc.
Cast: Jose Diaz, Manuel Azaña, Dolores Ibárruri, Enrique Lister, Commander Martinez de Aragón, Gustav Regler

Overview:

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. Produced by the writers’ collective Contemporary Historians, edited by Helen van Dongen, scored by Marc Blitzstein, and narrated in its U.S. version by Ernest Hemingway (after an initial Orson Welles track), it blends frontline reportage with persuasion against Franco’s forces and their German–Italian backers.

Keywords:

spanish civil war (1936-39)