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Earth

Name: Earth
Released: 1930

Земля

1930

In a Ukrainian village, the arrival of a tractor and the drive for collective farming set young Communists against the old landowning order, in a lyrical meditation on life, death, and the soil. Oleksandr Dovzhenko's luminous silent masterpiece.

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Part of 10 Essential Ukrainian Films

This film is stop 2 of 10 in the hand-ranked native-cinema route through Ukraine. See the complete ranking or read the selection methodology.

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