The Spanish Earth
movie
View on VideBits →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.
Cast & crew
Jean Renoir · Orson Welles · Prudencio de Pereda · Dolores Ibárruri · Commander Martinez de Aragón · Archibald Macleish · Ernest Hemingway · Joris Ivens · Gustav Regler · John Dos Passos · José Díaz · Lillian Hellman · Manuel Azaña · Enrique Lister