The Spanish Earth 1937
Directed by Joris Ivens
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53 min
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
Manuel Azaña · Himself (President of Spain)José Díaz · Himself (Parliamentarian)Dolores Ibárruri · HerselfEnrique Lister · Himself (Republican Army)Commander Martinez de Aragón · Himself (Republican Army)Gustav Regler · Himself (German writer)Orson Welles · Narrator (voice)Ernest Hemingway · Narrator (voice)
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