Earth (1930)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | earth |
| Original title | Земля (Zemlya) |
| Country of production | USSR |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 1930 |
| length | 78 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alexander Dovchenko |
| script | Alexander Dovchenko |
| music | Lev Revuzki |
| camera | Daniil Demuzki |
| cut | Alexander Dovchenko |
| occupation | |
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Earth (Original title: Zemlya ) is a Soviet film drama by Alexander Dowschenko from 1930. It is one of the most famous silent films of the USSR.
action
He tells of the transformation of the Soviet Ukraine, of the contrast between the old world of the big landowners, the “ kulaks ”, and the new communist youth. The action takes place in a small Ukrainian village, where people are impatiently waiting for a tractor that the local kolkhoz has been promised by the municipal district committee. When the tractor finally arrives, a conflict arises: When the young tractor driver Vasily dares to plow down the boundary stones that previously marked the fields of the large landowners, he is shot by a kulak.
background
The film was made against the background of the Stalinist deculakization and participates in the demonization of the so-called kulaks .
It was shot in the historical context of the first five-year plan and cut four scenes that were considered too revealing by the Soviet censors. (→ censorship in the Soviet Union )
criticism
At the 1958 Brussels World's Fair, the film was selected by an international committee of 117 film critics and scholars as one of the ten most important films in the world.
film-dienst celebrated Dowschenko's film in its criticism as a “milestone of Soviet revolutionary cinema” and emphasized its sensational formal design, which is also considered a forerunner of the modern avant-garde .
Web links
- Earth in the online film database
- Earth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ray Uzwyshyn: Earth - Visual Exploration (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Lexicon of International Films 2000/2001 (CD-ROM)