Mother Earth (1931)

Original title

Terra madre

Directed by

Alessandro Blasetti

Genre

drama film

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 27m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A country landowner sells his property and moves to the city. He later changes his mind and returns to the countryside.

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What happens

Mother Earth (Italian: Terra madre) is a 1931 Italian drama film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Leda Gloria, Sandro Salvini and Isa Pola. It was made at the Cines Studios in Rome. Along with Blasetti's other early films, it shows a strong influence of Soviet-style realism. A country landowner decides to sell up and move to the city, but later has a change of heart. It was part of Fascist Italy's promotion of rural over urban values. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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