The Spanish Earth
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🎬 Movie

The Spanish Earth

📅 1937 ⭐ 6.6 🕐 53m US US
IMDb tt0029594 TMDB 126783
Documentary

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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Cast
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Director Joris Ivens Editor Helen van Dongen Music Virgil Thomson Writer Archibald Macleish Writer Ernest Hemingway Writer John Dos Passos Writer Joris Ivens Writer Lillian Hellman Writer Prudencio de Pereda
Production
Contemporary Historians Inc.
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