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Earth (Zemlya)

Zemlya

1930

Aleksandr Dovzhenko

Stepan Shkurat, Semyon Svashenko, Yuliya Solntseva, Yelena Maksimova ...

7.4

1,095

Drama Dovzhenko's "film poem" style brings to life the collective experience of life for the Ukranian proles, examining natural cycles through his epic montage. He explores life, death, violence, sex, and other issues as they relate to the collective farms. An idealistic vision of the possibilities of Communism made just before Stalinism set in and the Kulack class was liquidated, "Earth" was viewed negatively by many Soviets because of its ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Ciara Wardlow Film School Rejects	"It’s perhaps best described as visual poetry. In pacing and style, it can very much be seen as a precursor to the works of Andrei Tarkovsky."
		Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"The compositions are breathtaking, the evocations of death and social transformation powerful, the eroticism remarkably potent. Incontestably one of the greatest of all Soviet films."
		Mordaunt Hall The New York Times	"Although there are many beautifully photographed views in the Soviet silent film (...) it is far from being an entertaining study"
		Time Out	"A very great film indeed"
		Ed Gonzalez Slant	"'Earth' may be silent, but there’s so much vitality in any given frame as to suggest a non-stop primal scream (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"

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