The Spanish Earth
The Spanish Earth
1937
Documentary
Synopsis
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.
Credits
Director
Joris Ivens
Cast
Commander Martinez de Aragón as Himself (Republican Army)
Dolores Ibárruri as Herself
Enrique Lister as Himself (Republican Army)
Ernest Hemingway as Narrator (voice)
Gustav Regler as Himself (German writer)
Jean Renoir as Narrator (voice)
José Díaz as Himself (Parliamentarian)
Manuel Azaña as Himself (President of Spain)
Orson Welles as Narrator (voice)
Crew
John Fernhout (Director of Photography)
Helen van Dongen (Editor)
Virgil Thomson (Music)
Marc Blitzstein (Music Arranger)
Archibald Macleish (Writer)
Ernest Hemingway (Writer)
John Dos Passos (Writer)
Joris Ivens (Writer)
Lillian Hellman (Writer)
Prudencio de Pereda (Writer)
Original Poster
The Spanish Earth - Original Poster
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