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Earth (1930)

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Reviews Counted:11

Fresh:9

Rotten:2

Average Rating:8/10

Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: The story involves the people of a small Ukrainian farming village whose lives are changed when they decide to collectively purchase a tractor. Struggling against superstition, rich landowners and... The story involves the people of a small Ukrainian farming village whose lives are changed when they decide to collectively purchase a tractor. Struggling against superstition, rich landowners and nature itself, the people struggle to make their dreams a reality. Silent film with orchestral score. [More]

Director: Alexander Dovzhenko

Director: Alexander Dovzhenko

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Jan 22, 2002

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  • Alexander Dovzhenko, one of the four giants of early Soviet revolutionary cinema, shattered the film world with his silent masterpiece "Earth," even though few outside the director's native Ukraine connected with its specific references to place and topic. But the deep feeling and poetic imagery of this film transcends locale and era, moves strong men to tears and has frequently won it a place on critics' lists of the greatest films of all time.
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    The astonishingly beautiful Earth is unlike anything else in movies.

    Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
    10/23/07
    J. Hoberman
    J. Hoberman
    Village Voice
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    The tragedy of Dovzhenko is that of a gifted cineaste stymied and almost maddened by the demands, actual and implicit, of his ultra-repressive state sponsors.

    Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
    10/23/07
    TV Guide's Movie Guide

    Much of this film is chaotic, especially during the church episode and some of the closing scenes.

    Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
    01/28/06
    Mordaunt Hall
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    A very great film indeed.

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    01/26/06
    Geoff Andrew
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    No review available.

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    11/01/05
    Emanuel Levy
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    It's a simple propaganda piece that overcomes its flaws through graceful cinematography and editing.

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    04/04/05
    Jeffrey M. Anderson
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    A stunning achievement by turns beautiful, poignant and silently subversive.

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    10/06/04
    Channel 4 Film

    In Aleksandr Dovzhenko’s orgiastic paean to Soviet collectivism and tractor-ism Earth there is nothing more beautiful than the untainted countryside.

    Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
    02/03/04
    Ed Gonzalez
    Ed Gonzalez
    Slant Magazine

    Supposed classic -- for art house diehards only.

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    12/29/02
    Ken Hanke
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    Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

    The vitality of the landscape is mirrored in the faces of the community's hardy young peasants.

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    11/19/02
    Jason Anderson
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    Incontestably one of the greatest of all Soviet films.

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