The Spanish Earth
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The Spanish Earth

6.5 / 10 | 5h | United States
1937 | Documentary | War
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.

Cast List (16)

Joris Ivens
Joris Ivens
Director
Orson Welles
Orson Welles
Narrator (English version) (later replaced by Ernest Hemingway)
Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir
Narrator (French version)
Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir
Récitant
Gustav Regler
Gustav Regler
Self - German Writer
Dolores Ibárruri
Dolores Ibárruri
Self - Republican Leader
Manuel Azaña
Manuel Azaña
Self - President of the Republic
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Narrator (English version)
Enrique Lister
Enrique Lister
Self - Commander 1st Division Republican Army
Carlos Romero Giménez
Carlos Romero Giménez
Self - Commander 5th Division Republican Army
José Díaz
José Díaz
Self - Member of Parliament
Martinez de Aragón
Martinez de Aragón
Self - Commander 2nd Division Republican Army
Commander Martinez de Aragón
Commander Martinez de Aragón
Self (Republican Army)
John Dos Passos
John Dos Passos
Writer
Lillian Hellman
Lillian Hellman
Writer
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Writer

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