Chin Han
Chung Li Ho
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Native Land: Directed by Leo Hurwitz, Paul Strand. With Paul Robeson, Fred Johnson, Mary George, John Rennick. Paul Robeson narrates a mix of dramatizations and archival footage about the bill of rights being under attack during the 1930s by union busting corporations, their spies and contractors.
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- Drama, History
- Leo Hurwitz, Paul Strand
- 1942-05-11
My Native Land (Chinese: 原鄉人; pinyin: Yuánxiāng rén), also called China, My Native Land, is a Mandarin-language film, released in 1980 by Ta Chung Motion Picture Corporation (大眾電影華股份有限公司, TCMPC) in Taiwan. It is a biographical film about the Hakka writer Chung Li-ho.
Synopsis. A combination of a documentary format and staged reenactments (influenced by the cinematic works of Sergei Eisenstein and Aleksandr Dovzhenko ), the independently produced film depicted the struggle of trade unions against union-busting corporations, their spies and contractors.
- Leo Hurwitz
- Marc Blitzstein
- 11 May 1942
- Paul Robeson (Narrator/Vocalist), Fred Johnson
Robeson committed his support to Paul Strand and Leo Hurwitz's political semidocumentary Native Land. With Robeson's narration and songs, this beautifully shot and edited film exposes violations of Americans' civil liberties and is a call to action for exploited workers around the country.
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Film Details. Articles & Reviews. Notes. Brief Synopsis. Dramatizations and archival footage capture the fight for civil liberties in the 1930s. Cast & Crew. Read More. Leo Hurwitz. Director. Paul Robeson. Narrator/Singer. Fred Johnson. Fred Hill, the farmer. Mary George. Farmer's wife. John Rennick. Farmer's son. Amelia Romano. Slavey.
With Robeson’s narration and songs, this beautifully shot and edited film exposes violations of Americans’ civil liberties and is a call to action for exploited workers around the country. Scarcely shown since its debut, Native Land represents Robeson’s shift from narrative cinema to the leftist documentaries that would define the final ...
