The Spanish Earth

The Spanish Earth

1937
53m
6.5

6.5/10

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Documentary
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.

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Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Companies
Contemporary Historians Inc.
Production Countries
United States of America
Spoken Languages
English German Spanish

Keywords

spanish civil war (1936-39)

Quick Facts

Release Date July 10, 1937
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt0029594

Cast

Manuel Azaña
Manuel Azaña

Himself (President of Spain)

José Díaz
José Díaz

Himself (Parliamentarian)

Dolores Ibárruri
Dolores Ibárruri

Herself

Enrique Lister
Enrique Lister

Himself (Republican Army)

Commander Martinez de Aragón
Commander Martinez de Aragón

Himself (Republican Army)

Gustav Regler
Gustav Regler

Himself (German writer)

Orson Welles
Orson Welles

Narrator (voice)

Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway

Narrator (voice)

Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir

Narrator (voice)

Key Crew

Prudencio de Pereda
Writer
John Dos Passos
Writer
Lillian Hellman
Writer
Archibald Macleish
Writer
Ernest Hemingway
Writer
Joris Ivens
Director
Joris Ivens
Writer