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Rating: 8 stars

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mubi soviet union collectivization farming propaganda silent film black and white

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Earth (1930)

Directed by Alexander Dovzhenko

Drama

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Overview

The film tells about the creation of the first collective farm communes and class enmity. Vasyl, a member of the Komsomol, with the help of a local party organization, gets a tractor and plows private boundaries “on kulak fields.” However, this enthusiasm will cost him dearly.

Rated NR | Length 79 minutes

Actors

Stepan Shkurat | Semyon Svashenko | Yuliya Solntseva | Yelena Maksimova | Vasiliy Krasenko | Nikolai Nademsky | Ivan Franko | Pyotr Masokha | Vladimir Mikhaylov | Pavel Petrik | P. Umanets | Luka Lyashenko | Ye. Bondina | O. Bondina | M. Matsyutsia | Sergey Borisov

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Viewing Notes

A visually arresting film with some stunning sequences highlighting the beauty of mother nature. Ostensibly a propaganda film for collectivization, released before Stalin’s purges, but really just a beautiful piece of cinema.

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