The Spanish Earth
movie
Released July 10, 1937
Genres:
Overview
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.
Cast
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Manuel Azaña
as
Himself (President of Spain)
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José Díaz
as
Himself (Parliamentarian)
Dolores Ibárruri
as
Herself
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Enrique Lister
as
Himself (Republican Army)
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Commander Martinez de Aragón
as
Himself (Republican Army)
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Gustav Regler
as
Himself (German writer)
Orson Welles
as
Narrator (voice)
Ernest Hemingway
as
Narrator (voice)
Jean Renoir
as
Narrator (voice)
Crew
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Prudencio de Pereda
as
Writer
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John Dos Passos
as
Writer
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Archibald Macleish
as
Writer
Ernest Hemingway
as
Writer
Joris Ivens
as
Director
Joris Ivens
as
Writer
Lillian Hellman
as
Writer
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Helen van Dongen
as
Editor
Virgil Thomson
as
Music
Marc Blitzstein
as
Music Arranger
John Fernhout
as
Director of Photography