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Writer:
Aleksandr Dovzhenko (writer)
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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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DVD Spotlight: 9/3.
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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)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Земля (Soviet Union: Russian title)
Earth (USA)
Soil
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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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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful:-
Earth, 15 June 2008
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Author: zolaaar from Berlin, GER

Dovzhenko was a 'modernist' who drew deepest inspiration from traditional arts. His ode to the beginning of the collectivization is actually an orgy of intoxicant images of bulging clouds, waving wheat fields, ripening fruits and pelting horses.

The arrival of a tractor is hailed by the farmers. They begin to believe that an improved life has started, but Kulaks murder the young leader of the village party committee. This only encourages the village inhabitants in their resoluteness. In a sublime finale sequence, Dovzhenko unites birth, death, harvest, technical progress and solidarity, when the dead are returned to Earth that he loved so much.

No abstract summary can do justice to the extraordinary sensualism of this remarkable film. Whoever searches for the roots of Andrei Tarkovsky's cinema has to start with "Zemlya".

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