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In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.
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Stepan Shkurat
- Opanas
- (as S. Shkurat)
Semyon Svashenko
- Vasyl - son of Opanas
- (as S. Svashenko)
Yuliya Solntseva
- Daughter of Opanas
- (as Yu. Solntseva)
Yelena Maksimova
- Natalya - Vasyl's fiancee
- (as Ye. Maksimova)
Nikolai Nademsky
- Ded Semyon
- (as N. Nademsky)
Ivan Franko
- Kulak Belokon
- (as I. Franko)
Pyotr Masokha
- Khoma - son of kulak Belokon
- (as P. Masokha)
Vladimir Mikhaylov
- Priest
- (as V. Mikhaylov)
Pavel Petrik
- Young Party-Cell Leader
- (as P. Petrik)
P. Umanets
- Chairman of the Village Soviet
- (as Umanets)
Luka Lyashenko
- Young Kulak
- (as L. Lyashenko)
Vasiliy Krasenko
- Old Peter
- (uncredited)
M. Matsyutsia
- Farm Girl
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaSoviet censors made Aleksandr Dovzhenko eliminate a number of scenes from the film, including the scene of peasants urinating into a tractor radiator, and the scene of nude woman mourning over her dead fiance. The original uncut version was screened in Ukrainian republic when first released, and then in the Museum of Modern Art (New York City, USA) about 40 years later, on 10 October 1969.
- Alternate versionsIn 1997, the film was re-released in Germany by ZDF, with a new score composed by Alexander Popov. This version was digitally improved (known as Arte Edition), then released on DVD and distributed by the absolut MEDIEN GmbH in 2006. The running time is 78 minutes. The crew participants:
- Alexander Popov, Composer;
- Frank Strobel, Conductor;
- Evgeniy Nikulskiy, Sound engineer;
- Nina Goslar, Commissioning editor.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Last Bolshevik (1993)
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A Living Organism
Stalin may have wanted an ode to collective agriculture; what he got instead was a hymnal to mother nature and the toiling offspring who dwell in her bosom. Those opening shots of pulsating fields waving in the wind have no equal for sheer evocative power. Earth is revealed at once as a living, breathing being and bountiful provider. Flower, fruit, decay, renewal -- nature's timeless cycle. The soundless imagery is at times so wonderfully lyrical that contemporary viewers may be led to recognize how much has been lost to the technology-driven cinema of today. Even the occasional plot crudities are rescued by a style that is both brilliant and unerringly pictorial. Close-ups of weather-worn peasants, a lone kulak and oxen beneath an immense sky, great rolling plains and far horizons of the Ukrainian breadbasket -- this is the sheer lyrical sweep of the Dovchenko masterpiece, a montage that transcends all obstacles, real and man-made. Not even the estimable John Ford frames primitive elements as grandly as this. There are flaws. Too many rushing crowd scenes appear without purpose, except to mimic Eisenstein's "march of history", while the propaganda thread at times blends uneasily with the lyrical. Still and all, Dovchenko pulls off the theme of new beginning more seamlessly than might be expected. Far from being a mere relic of the silent era, or an ode to Stalinist collectivism, Earth remains an enduring testament to the power of cinema as sheer visual poetry.
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- Jan 24, 2011
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- Runtime1 hour 15 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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