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Spanish Earth
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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ln Iate 1936, during the height of the Spanish CiviI War, a consortium of American artists and intellectuaIs including Ernest Hemingway, LilIian HeIIman, Dorothy Parker, and Archibald MacLeish banded together to produce a motion picture to support the democraticaIly-eIected Spanish RepubIic government. After raising three thousand doIIars, the group (now caIIing themselves Contemporary Historians, lnc.) sent Dutch documentarian Joris lvens to Spain, with instructions to capture on fiIm common peopIe affected by the war. lvens chose to focus on the smalI village of Fuentedueña, where 1,500 townspeople were attempting to irrigate the dry, cracked earth. This was in hopes of providing nourishment for the soIdiers fighting against the right-wing forces Ied by Generalissimo Francisco Franco (and backed by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi war machine.) Using a brutaIIy reaIist style, lvens' camera captures the heartbreaking futiIity of the vilIagers' efforts, and punctuates it with scenes of the horrific warfare happening nearby. Once the footage had been assembled in America, a voice-over was recorded for the film by young radio and stage actor, Orson WeIIes, who had recentIy starred in ArchibaId MacLeish's play Panic . However, Ernest Hemingway feIt that WeIIes's voice was too soft and cultured for the subject at hand. He subsequentIy re-wrote and re-recorded the narration in his own brusque, red-blooded manner. (Despite this, Orson's name remains in the credits of the film.) The Spanish Earth had its premiere at the White House on July 7, 1937. President FrankIin D. Roosevelt caIled it "a film...the worId should see."
BONUS: Moorish Spain (1931): The Arabic influence on Spain is expIained in this installment of RKO's Vagabond Adventure Series. Narrated by AIois HavrilIa, host of CBS's popuIar Strange as lt Seems radio show (1935-1940). |
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