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Aleksandr Dovzhenko (writer)
Release Date:
17 October 1930 (USA)
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In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Stepan Shkurat | ... | Opanas (as S. Shkurat) |
| Semyon Svashenko | ... | Vasili 'Basil' Opanas (as S. Svashenko) |
| Yuliya Solntseva | ... | Vasili's sister (as Yu. Solntseva) |
| Yelena Maksimova | ... | Natalya, Vasili's fiancee (as Ye. Maksimova) |
| Nikolai Nademsky | ... | Semyon 'Simon' Opanas (as N. Nademsky) |
| Ivan Franko | ... | Arkhip Whitehorse, Khoma's father (as I. Franko) |
| Pyotr Masokha | ... | Khoma 'Thomas' Whitehorse (as P. Masokha) |
| Vladimir Mikhajlov | ... | Village priest (as V. Mikhajlov) |
| Pavel Petrik | ... | Young party-cell leader (as P. Petrik) |
| P. Umanets | ... | Chairman of the village Farm Soviet |
| Ye. Bondina | ... | Farm girl |
| Luka Lyashenko | ... | Young Kulak (as L. Lyashenko) |
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75 min | USA:73 min (1991 Kino video)
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1.33 : 1 more
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Finland:K-16 (1956) |
Finland:S (1972)
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Soviet censors made Aleksandr Dovzhenko eliminate a number of scenes from the film, including a shot of peasants urinating in a tractor radiator and a scene where a dead man's fiancée mourns him in the nude.
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Referenced in Life as a Dream (2007) (V)
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"The Earth", Dovzhenko's last silent movie, and it is also his best. With a simple story of a young farmer from an Ucranian village, Dovzhenko works the lyrical expression of an universal theme: the life circle of a person. The movie is developed with a constant counterpoint between pictures of life and death, being the images of death and social changes extremely powerful. The arrival of a tractor is the turning point of all the social changes in the farm, as it is gradually shown in the movie. Yes, it is a movie from former USSR, but that shouldn't make us build a preconceptcion of the movie (in fact this movie was censored by the USSR). In short, one sentence for this movie: Death not as an end, but as a natural process. Watch it!