The Spanish Earth

The Spanish Earth (1937)

Documentary

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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  • Release Date: 1937-07-10
  • Runtime: 0h 53min
  • Director: Joris Ivens

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Cast

  • 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)

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