Earth (1930)
- Original title
- Земля
- Directed by
- Oleksandr Dovzhenko
- Genre
- drama film, silent film
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.6 of 10 from 154 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A Ukrainian village experiences the social upheaval of collectivization. The story follows peasants as they face resistance from wealthy landowners and grapple with the changes to their way of life.
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What happens
Earth (Russian: «Земля», Ukrainian: «Земля», romanized: Zemlya) is a 1930 Soviet Ukrainian silent film by Alexander Dovzhenko. The film concerns the process of collectivization and the hostility of kulak landowners under the First Five-Year Plan. It is the third film, with Zvenigora and Arsenal, of Dovzhenko's "Ukraine Trilogy". The script was inspired by Dovzhenko's life and experience of the process of collectivization in his native Ukraine. That process, which was the backdrop of the film and its production, informed its reception in the Soviet Union, which was largely negative. Earth is commonly regarded as Dovzhenko's masterpiece and as one of the greatest films ever made. The film was voted number 10 on the prestigious Brussels 12 list at the 1958 World Expo. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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A Simple Case (1930)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.