The Spanish Earth

1937

English

6.5

♡ 2

80%

42%

Action

Documentary

spanish civil war (1936-39)

War

Joris Ivens Director

Orson Welles as Narrator

Gustav Regler as Self

Commander Martinez de Aragón as Self

José Díaz as Self

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.

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