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17 October 1930 (USA) more
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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

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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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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Земля (Soviet Union: Russian title)
Earth (USA)
Soil
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Runtime:
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. more
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Referenced in Life as a Dream (2007) (V) more

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A great classic, 28 July 2006
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Author: Jorge Paupério from Portugal, Porto

"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!

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