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12/29/02
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... [More]
Director: Alexander Dovzhenko
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Reviews for Earth
1 - 11 (sorted by rotten rating)
Much of this film is chaotic, especially during the church episode and some of the closing scenes.
01/28/06
A stunning achievement by turns beautiful, poignant and silently subversive.
10/06/04
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.
10/23/07
In Aleksandr Dovzhenko’s orgiastic paean to Soviet collectivism and tractor-ism Earth there is nothing more beautiful than the untainted countryside.
02/03/04
No review available.
11/01/05
A very great film indeed.
01/26/06
The astonishingly beautiful Earth is unlike anything else in movies.
10/23/07
Top CriticThe vitality of the landscape is mirrored in the faces of the community's hardy young peasants.
11/19/02
It's a simple propaganda piece that overcomes its flaws through graceful cinematography and editing.
04/04/05
Incontestably one of the greatest of all Soviet films.
01/01/00
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