Earth (1930 film)
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| Земля (Earth) | |
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| Directed by | Olexandr Dovzhenko |
| Written by | Olexandr Dovzhenko |
| Music by | Levko Revutsky V. Ovchinnikov |
| Cinematography | Danylo Demutsky |
| Editing by | Olexandr Dovzhenko |
| Release date(s) | 1930 (Soviet Union) |
| Running time | 76 min. |
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Earth (Russian and Ukrainian: Земля, translit. Zemlya) (1930) is a Soviet film by Ukrainian director Olexandr Dovzhenko concerning an insurrection by a community of farmers, following a hostile takeover by Kulak landowners. It is Part 3 of Dovzhenko's "Ukraine Trilogy" (along with Zvenigora and Arsenal).
Earth was simultaneously lauded and derided by Soviet authorities due to its fairly ambiguous political message. Soviet influence is clear if one looks for it, particularly in the nearness to the "earth" of the peasants, but exactly why or how the symbol functions is unclear. Indeed, the film also deals with subjects such as death, destruction, and poverty.
Earth is widely considered Dovzhenko's best film, and is often cited alongside Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925) as one of the most important films of the Soviet era.
It was named #88 in the 1995 Centenary Poll of the 100 Best Films of the Century in Time Out Magazine. The film was also voted one of the ten greatest films of all time by a group of 117 film historians at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair.
The starting scene of Earth, showing an old man dying among pear trees, probably influenced the music video of the 1994 Enigma song Return to Innocence.
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