The Spanish Earth (1937)
52 min
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.
- Data de estreia
- 11 de julho de 1937
- País de origem
- Estados Unidos
Elenco
- Enrique Lister como Self - Commander 1st Division Republican Army
- Carlos Romero Giménez como Self - Commander 5th Division Republican Army
- José Díaz como Self - Member of Parliament
- Gustav Regler como Self - German Writer
- Dolores Ibárruri como Self - Republican Leader
- Manuel Azaña como Self - President of the Republic
- Martinez de Aragón como Self - Commander 2nd Division Republican Army
- Commander Martinez de Aragón como Self (Republican Army)
- Orson Welles como Narrator (English version) (later replaced by Ernest Hemingway)
- Ernest Hemingway como Narrator (English version)
- Ernest Hemingway como Narrator (English version)
Equipe
- Joris Ivens · Diretor(a)
- John Dos Passos · Roteirista
- Ernest Hemingway · Roteirista
- John Fernhout · Diretor(a) de fotografia
- Helen van Dongen · Editor(a)