The Spanish Earth Poster

The Spanish Earth

65.00% | July 10, 1937 | 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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Prudencio de Pereda
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John Dos Passos
Writer
Archibald Macleish
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Manuel Azaña
Manuel Azaña
Himself (President of Spain)
José Díaz
José Díaz
Himself (Parliamentarian)
Enrique Lister
Enrique Lister
Himself (Republican Army)
Commander Martinez de Aragón
Commander Martinez de Aragón
Himself (Republican Army)

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