Earth (1930 film)


Earth Ukrainian , translit.Zemlya is a 1930 Soviet silent film by Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko, concerning the process of collectivization and the hostility of Kulak landowners. It is Partof Dovzhenkos Ukraine Trilogy along with Zvenigora and Arsenal.

Later, Vasyl arrives with the communitys first tractor to much excitement. After the men urinate in the overheated radiator, the peasants plow the land with the tractor and harvest the grain. A montage sequence presents the production of bread from beginning to end. That night Vasyl dances a hopak along a path on his way home, but a dark figure attacks and kills him.Vasyls father turns away the priest who expects to lead the funeral, declaring his atheism. He asks Vasyls friends to bury his son in a new way without priests and sing new songs for a new life. The villagers do so, while Vasyls fiancee, Natalya, mourns him painfully and the local priest curses them as impious. At the cemetery, Bilokins son Khoma Thomas arrives in a frenzy to declare that he will resist collectivization and that he was the one who killed Vasyl, but the villagers pay him no attention. One declares that Vasyls glory will fly around the world like a new communist airplane. The film ends with a downpour of rain over fruit and vegetables. ........

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