Earth

Also known as Земля

1930 film by Alexander Dovzhenko, Yuliya Solntseva

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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.

Released: 1930-04-0879 minDir: Oleksandr DovzhenkoDramaPart of: Ukraine Trilogy

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Cast

Stepan Shkurat as Opanas
Semen Svashenko as Vasyl
Yuliya Solntseva as Vasyl's sister
Elena Maksimova as Natalia, Vasyl's bride
Vasyl Krasenko as Petro
Mykola Nademskyi as grandfather Semen

Themes

farm
silent film
communism
proletariat
rural setting

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Key facts

Ukrainian: Земля
Directed by: Alexander Dovzhenko
Written by: Alexander Dovzhenko
Starring: Stepan Shkurat [ uk ] Semen Svashenko [ uk ] Yuliya Solntseva Yelena Maksimova Mykola Nademsky [ uk ]
Cinematography: Danylo Demutsky [ uk ]
Edited by: Alexander Dovzhenko
Music by: Levko Revutsky (original release) Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (1971 restoration) DakhaBrakha (2012 remaster)
Release date: 8 April 1930 ( 1930-04-08 )
Running time: 76 minutes
Country: Soviet Union
Languages: Silent film , Russian intertitles

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Wikidata facts

Duration: 78
FilmAffinity ID: 216509
Image: 1996. Кадр из фильма Земля.jpg

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publication date: 1930-04-08
title: Земля
Commons category: Earth (1930 film)

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Earth (Russian: «Земля», Ukrainian: «Земля», romanized: Zemlya) is a 1930 Soviet Ukrainian silent film by Alexander Dovzhenko. The film concerns the process of collectivization and the hostility of kulak landowners under the First Five-Year Plan. It is the third film, with Zvenigora and Arsenal, of Dovzhenko's "Ukraine Trilogy".

The script was inspired by Dovzhenko's life and experience of the process of collectivization in his native Ukraine. That process, which was the backdrop of the film and its production, informed its reception in the Soviet Union, which was largely negative.