Movie Description
The Spanish Earth
(1937)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.
Featured Crew
- Director : Joris Ivens
- Writer : Prudencio de Pereda,John Dos Passos,Joris Ivens,Archibald Macleish,Lillian Hellman,Ernest Hemingway
- Editor : Helen van Dongen
- Cast : Manuel Azaña,José Díaz,Dolores Ibárruri,Enrique Lister,Commander Martinez de Aragón,Gustav Regler,Orson Welles,Ernest Hemingway,Jean Renoir
Cast
Himself (President of Spain)
Himself (Parliamentarian)
Herself
Himself (Republican Army)
Himself (Republican Army)
Himself (German writer)
Narrator (voice)
Narrator (voice)
Narrator (voice)
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Facts
Original TitleThe Spanish Earth
Status Released
Release Information
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1937-07-10
Original LanguageUnknown
Runtime 00h 53m
Production CompaniesContemporary Historians Inc.
Genres
- Documentary
