The Spanish Earth
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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Directors
Joris Ivens
Writers
Prudencio de Pereda, John Dos Passos, Archibald Macleish, Ernest Hemingway, Joris Ivens, Lillian Hellman
Cast
Manuel Azaña, José Díaz, Dolores Ibárruri, Enrique Lister, Commander Martinez de Aragón, Gustav Regler, Orson Welles, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Renoir
Production
Contemporary Historians Inc.
Languages
English, German, Spanish
Countries
United States of America
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