Zemli︠a︡ (Motion picture) [WorldCat Entities]

"Land"
"Bezhin Lug"@en
"Zemlya"@en
"Zemlya"
"Bezhin meadow"
"Zemlia"
"Chess fever"
"Zemlya (Soviet title)"
"Alexander Dovzhenko's Earth"
"Bezhin Meadow"@en
"Zemlja"
"The end of St. Petersburg"

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"Classique du cinéma poético-révolutionnaire russe montrant l'état d'un village ukrainien en 1929 alors que s'y produisent des transformations économiques et sociales. La formation des Kolkhozes et la résistance des Koulaks s'allient aux thèmes de la fécondité de la nature, son renouvellement, l'amour et la mort: un jeune organisateur, secrétaire d'un kolkhoze, est tué par un Koulak et pleuré par sa fiancée."
"The fourth and last silent film by the Ukrainian director. The young peasants of a Ukrainian village want to set up collective farms. The Kulaks (wealthy landowners) try to protect their land. Dovzhenko is concerned with the lyrical expression of a universal theme: the life cycle of man which the filmmaker believes is bound inextricably to the land. (Does not circulate)."
"A masterpiece of the cinema in which plot is secondary to visual impact, the film is set in the early days of the collectivization of the Ukraine."@en
"This film is considered a masterpiece. It shows the economic change and attitude transformation among the Russian peasants as a collective farm is developed in a Ukrainian village."@en
"Inspired by a newspaper account, this Soviet film dramatizes the conflict between kulaks and peasants living on a collective farm in the Ukraine. Basil obtains a tractor for the village to share, and under his leadership the collective is successful, but he is assassinated by a landowner. His father asks for a "modern" funeral with songs."
"Inspired by a newspaper account, this Soviet film dramatizes the conflict between kulaks and peasants living on a collective farm in the Ukraine. Basil obtains a tractor for the village to share, and under his leadership the collective is successful, but he is assassinated by a landowner. His father asks for a "modern" funeral with songs by the young people of their new life."
"Inspired by a newspaper account, this Soviet film dramatizes the conflict between kulaks and peasants living on a collective farm in the Ukraine. Basil obtains a tractor for the village to share, and under his leadership the collective is successful, but he is assassinated by a landowner. His father asks for a "modern" funeral with songs by the young people of their new life."@en
"This film shows the economic change and attitude transformation among the Soviet peasants as a collective farm is developed in a Ukrainian village."@en
"Alexander Dovzhenko, one of the four giants of early Soviet revolutionary cinema, shattered the film world with his silent masterpiece "Earth," even though few outside the director's native Ukraine connected with its specific references to place and topic. But the deep feeling and poetic imagery of this film transcends locale and era, moves strong men to tears and has frequently won it a place on critics' lists of the greatest films of all time."
"Trouble results in a Ukrainian village when a landowner refuses to hand over his land for a collective farm."@en
""One of the undisputed masterpieces of the cinema, no single viewing of Earth will ever reveal all of its poetic brilliance. The third in a triptych of films by Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko (after Zvenigora in 1927 and Arsenal in 1928), Earth is strikingly simple in plot. On the eve of collectivization in the Ukraine, an old farmer dies peacefully in bed. His grandson Vasil has a new vision--the village council will buy a tractor to be shared among the farmers. Struggling against superstition, rich landowners and nature itself, Vasil is ultimately the victim of a tragic murder, but the dawn brings forth a new life and the promise of prosperity to the poor village. The story itself is secondary to the visually stunning and incredibly moving images that Dovzhenko creates. His love for the Ukrainian people and land intoxicates the viewer with the sensual splendors that fill the screen"--Videodisc sleeve."
"SUMMARY: 'Trouble results in a Ukrainian village when a landowner refuses to hand over his land for a collective farm. Lyrical sequences of rustic beauty, illustrating life, love and death in the countryside.' (SFSU)"
""One of the undisputed masterpieces of the cinema, no single viewing of Earth will ever reveal all of its poetic brilliance. The third in a triptych of films by Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko (after Zvenigora in 1927 and Arsenal in 1928), Earth is strikingly simple in plot. On the eve of collectivization in the Ukraine, an old farmer dies peacefully in bed. His grandson Vasil has a new vision: the village council will buy a tractor to be shared among the farmers. Struggling against superstition, rich landowners and nature itself, Vasil is ultimately the victim of a tragic murder, but the dawn brings forth a new life and the promise of prosperity to the poor village. The story itself is secondary to the visually stunning and incredibly moving images that Dovzhenko creates. His love for the Ukrainian people and land intoxicates the viewer with the sensual splendors that fill the screen"--Videodisc sleeve."
"The fourth and last silent film by the Ukrainian director. The young peasants of a Ukrainian village want to set up collective farms. The Kulaks (wealthy landowners) try to protect their land. Dovzhenko is concerned with the lyrical expression of a universal theme: the life cycle of man which the filmmaker believes is bound inextricably to the land."@en
"Workers on the Ukrainian farms struggle to use the land for what they think are the best purposes. Reflects the agricultural collectivization that was going on in the Soviet Union at the time this film was made."
"Like Eisenstein's The General Line, Earth is concerned with the process of rural collectivisation and draws upon the social antagonisms that marked the process. However, rather than a concern with discontinuity that was central to his earlier films Dovzhenko suggests in Earth that social revolution can sustain an order that comes from the stability of nature. Naturalisation (the countryside at harmony with itself) is normally ideological tactic to defend the status quo. Dovzhenko's intense lyricism, moving between static painterly compositions and choreographed sequences, makes large scale social change appear as spontaneous and inevitable as the change of seasons. Conceived when the process was still in its voluntary phase but released amidst the conflict and turmoil engendered by forced collectivisation, Dovzhenko's reconciliation of social conflict with the natural order did not find much favour with the Stalinist authorities."@en
"Shows "The last great Russian "silent" film, with synchronized orchestral score.""
"A Ukrainain farmer's struggle against superstition, rich landowners and nature itself in the new era of collectivization."
"The film Bezhin Meadow was to have been about the young pioneers and their contribution to Soviet collective farming, but became instead the story of the struggle between old and new forces in Russia as symbolized in the story of a young boy who opposes his evil father."