The Spanish Earth
1937 | 53m | English
Popularity: 0.4 (history)
| Director: | Joris Ivens |
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| Writer: | Prudencio de Pereda, John Dos Passos, Archibald Macleish, Joris Ivens, Ernest Hemingway, Lillian Hellman |
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| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Jul 10, 1937 |
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| Director: | Joris Ivens |
| Writer: | Prudencio de Pereda, John Dos Passos, Archibald Macleish, Joris Ivens, Ernest Hemingway, Lillian Hellman |
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| Keywords | spanish civil war (1936-39) |
| Production Companies | Contemporary Historians Inc. |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 19, 2026 Entered: May 03, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Manuel Azaña | Himself (President of Spain) |
| José Díaz | Himself (Parliamentarian) |
| Dolores Ibárruri | Herself |
| Enrique Lister | Himself (Republican Army) |
| Commander Martinez de Aragón | Himself (Republican Army) |
| Gustav Regler | Himself (German writer) |
| Orson Welles | Narrator (voice) |
| Ernest Hemingway | Narrator (voice) |
| Jean Renoir | Narrator (voice) |
| Name | Job |
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| Prudencio de Pereda | Writer |
| John Dos Passos | Writer |
| Virgil Thomson | Music |
| Archibald Macleish | Writer |
| Joris Ivens | Writer, Director |
| Ernest Hemingway | Writer |
| Lillian Hellman | Writer |
| Helen van Dongen | Editor |
| Marc Blitzstein | Music Arranger |
| John Fernhout | Director of Photography |
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