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Aug 5, 2011 · 1.5K. 204K views 12 years ago. This documentary film uses footage of war and glimpses of rural Spanish life in its portrayal of the struggle of the Spanish Republican government against a...
Jun 28, 2012 · The scene is from the 1937 film The Spanish Earth, an important visual document of the Spanish Civil War and a rare record of the famous writer’s voice. Hemingway went to Spain in the spring of 1937 to report on the war for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA), but spent a good deal of time working on the film.
Rent The Spanish Earth on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. A chronicle of the longtime Loyalist struggle against the scourge of fascism.
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The Spanish Earth (1937) Tells of the struggles during the Spanish Civil War. It deals with the war at different levels: from the political level, at the ground military level focusing on...
Films So-St. The Spanish Earth - Film (Movie) Plot and Review. USA, 1937. Director: Joris Ivens. Production: Contemporary Historians, Inc. (New York); black and white, 35mm; running time: 53 minutes. Released 1937. Filmed March-May 1937 in the village of Fuentedueña and Madrid, Spain; also on the Jarama and Morata de Tajuña fighting fronts.
A propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War in support of the Republican government against the rebellion by Gen. Francisco Franco's forces who were backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. The film would have been seen by those making it as a documentary. Cast. Manuel Azaña. Himself (President of Spain) José Díaz.
The resulting film, The Spanish Earth (1937), is a double documentary, depicting up close and personal the war's death and destruction, and the Spanish people's efforts to turn seized lands into communities, but also epitomizing the openly engaged convictions of the American left with the immediacy and urgency of a front-line dispatch from a ...
