Movie: The Spanish Earth

Top 9 Billed Cast

Manuel Azaña
Manuel Azaña

Himself (President of Spain)

José Díaz
José Díaz

Himself (Parliamentarian)

Dolores Ibárruri
Dolores Ibárruri

Herself

Enrique Lister
Enrique Lister

Himself (Republican Army)

Commander Martinez de Aragón
Commander Martinez de Aragón

Himself (Republican Army)

Gustav Regler
Gustav Regler

Himself (German writer)

Orson Welles
Orson Welles

Narrator (voice)

Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway

Narrator (voice)

Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir

Narrator (voice)

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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

    1937-07-10

  • Average

    6.5

  • Rating:

    3.3 starts
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