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Director:
Joris Ivens
Writers:
John Dos Passos (English narration) (part one)
Ernest Hemingway (English narration) (part two)
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Release Date:
20 August 1937 (USA) more
Genre:
Documentary | War more
Plot:
A documentary showing the struggle of the Spanish Republican government against a rebellion by ultra-right-wing forces led by Gen. Francisco Franco and backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. | add synopsis
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Red blood sinking into the Spanish earth more

Cast

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Manuel Azaña ... Himself (President of Spain)
José Díaz ... Himself (Parliamentarian)
Dolores Ibárruri ... Herself (as La Pasionaria)
Enrique Lister ... Himself (Republican Army)
Commander Martinez de Aragón ... Himself (Republican Army)
Gustav Regler ... Himself (German writer)

Orson Welles ... Narrator (English version) (later replaced by Ernest Hemingway) (voice)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
This Spanish Earth
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Runtime:
52 min
Country:
USA
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

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Trivia:
The production company, Contemporary Historians, was formed by a group of American writers and intellectuals, including Ernest Hemingway, Lillian Hellman, Archibald Macleish, John Dos Passos and 'Dorothy Parker'. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in "Allemaal film: Zoeken naar de werkelijkheid (#1.8)" (2007) more

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11 out of 22 people found the following comment useful:-
Red blood sinking into the Spanish earth, 26 May 2002
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Author: Jim Tritten from Corrales, NM

Probably more shocking at the time, this dated essay on war documents the good peasants and peoples army vs. the bad professional army and foreign troops. One of the earlier times that a camera was permitted to document the horrors of war, the production attempts to tell the moral message of the righteousness of the Republican cause -- but ultimately the film denounces war itself. Despite its noble crew, the documentary is slow-moving and suffers from what appears to be a voice-over of a silent film. A must see for those who have to see something about the Spanish Civil War or who have to hear Hemingway's voice, but this is not an evening's entertainment. The Why We Fight series done by the US Army during World War II is far superior. The horrors of war were captured for the present generation on their TV screens during the Viet Nam War.

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