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Writer:
Aleksandr Dovzhenko (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
17 October 1930 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming. full summary | add synopsis
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NewsDesk:
DVD Spotlight: 9/3.
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User Comments:
A great classic more

Cast

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Stepan Shkurat ... Opanas (as S. Shkurat)
Semyon Svashenko ... Vasili 'Basil' Opanas (as S. Svashenko)
Yuliya Solntseva ... Vasili's sister (as Yu. Solntseva)
Yelena Maksimova ... Natalya, Vasili's fiancee (as Ye. Maksimova)
Nikolai Nademsky ... Semyon 'Simon' Opanas (as N. Nademsky)
Ivan Franko ... Arkhip Whitehorse, Khoma's father (as I. Franko)
Pyotr Masokha ... Khoma 'Thomas' Whitehorse (as P. Masokha)
Vladimir Mikhajlov ... Village priest (as V. Mikhajlov)
Pavel Petrik ... Young party-cell leader (as P. Petrik)
P. Umanets ... Chairman of the village Farm Soviet
Ye. Bondina ... Farm girl
Luka Lyashenko ... Young Kulak (as L. Lyashenko)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
V. Krasenko ... Old Peter (uncredited)
M. Matsyutsia ... Farm girl (uncredited)
Nikolai Mikhajlov ... The Pope (uncredited)
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Directed by
Aleksandr Dovzhenko 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Aleksandr Dovzhenko  writer

Original Music by
Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (1971) (as V. Ovchinnikov)
Lev Revutsky (uncredited)
 
Cinematography by
Daniil Demutsky 
 
Film Editing by
Aleksandr Dovzhenko (uncredited)
 
Art Direction by
Vasili Krichevsky 
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Lazar Bodik .... assistant director
Yuliya Solntseva .... assistant director
 
Music Department
Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov .... conductor (1971 restored version) (as V. Ovchinnikov)
 
Other crew
Stephen P. Hill .... intertitler: English (1975 version)
 
Crew believed to be complete


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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Земля (Soviet Union: Russian title)
Earth (USA)
Soil
Erde (Germany) [de]
Jorden (Finland: Swedish title) [sv]
La terre (France) [fr]
La tierra (Spain) [es]
Maa (Finland) [fi]
Terra (Brazil) [pt]
Zemlja (France) (alternative transliteration) [fr]
Ziemia (Poland) [pl]
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Runtime:
75 min | USA:73 min (1991 Kino video)
Country:
Soviet Union
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Silent
Certification:
Finland:K-16 (1956) | Finland:S (1972)
Company:
Wufku more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
This film was voted one of the ten greatest films of all time by a group of 117 film historians at the 1958 Brussels World Fair. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Life as a Dream (2007) (V) more

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3 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
A great classic, 28 July 2006
10/10
Author: Jorge Paupério from Portugal, Porto

"The Earth", Dovzhenko's last silent movie, and it is also his best. With a simple story of a young farmer from an Ucranian village, Dovzhenko works the lyrical expression of an universal theme: the life circle of a person. The movie is developed with a constant counterpoint between pictures of life and death, being the images of death and social changes extremely powerful. The arrival of a tractor is the turning point of all the social changes in the farm, as it is gradually shown in the movie. Yes, it is a movie from former USSR, but that shouldn't make us build a preconceptcion of the movie (in fact this movie was censored by the USSR). In short, one sentence for this movie: Death not as an end, but as a natural process. Watch it!

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