Larger ImageThis much lauded pioneering Russian silent film is seen as Ukrainian director Dovzhenko’s best film and often appears on critics’ international top ten film lists.
Dovzhenko was commissioned to make what was intended to be a minor propaganda film to encourage the establishment of farming collectives. Set in the Ukraine it tells of the struggle between the peasants and the kulak, the local landlord. In order to stand up to the opposition, the peasants form a committee headed by Vasili to collectivise the land and stock. They buy a tractor to tear down the fences dividing land, but triumph soon turns to tragedy.
The final work in a loose trilogy that also comprises Zvenigora (1928) and Arsenal (1929), Earth is Dovzhenko's celebration of life and an ultimate prayer to nature, the land and those who toil on it.
The film unfolds using a series of stunning visuals to reflect the constant cycle of birth, growth and death resulting in a truly poetic masterpiece.
‘Combining lyrical beauty with simple, truth, this is a masterpiece with a soul’ Radio Times
SPECIFICATIONS
Running Time: 78 minutes
PAL DVD 9
Black & White
Rating: 18
Source: Licensed from Mosfilm Studios, who restored this film in 1971. Produced at WUFKU Studios, Kiev.
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