The Spanish Earth
10/07/1937
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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Manuel Azaña
as Himself (President of Spain)
José Díaz
as Himself (Parliamentarian)
Dolores Ibárruri
as Herself
Enrique Lister
as Himself (Republican Army)
Commander Martinez de Aragón
as Himself (Republican Army)
Gustav Regler
as Himself (German writer)
Orson Welles
as Narrator (voice)
Ernest Hemingway
as Narrator (voice)
Jean Renoir
as Narrator (voice)
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