{"id":73313,"date":"2021-06-25T17:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T00:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=73313"},"modified":"2021-06-25T17:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T00:22:38","slug":"earth-soil-1930","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=73313","title":{"rendered":"Earth \/ Soil (1930)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;May we prosper with the machines!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Poster-211x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-73321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Poster-211x300.png 211w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Poster-90x128.png 90w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Poster-189x270.png 189w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Poster.png 579w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA peasant (Semyon Svashenko) whose father (Stepan Shkurat) prefers old-fashioned means of farming arrives in his Ukrainian town with a tractor purchased to help them collectivize &#8212; but a land-owning &#8220;kulak&#8221; (Ivan Franko) and his son (Pyotr Masokha) resist the transition, with lethal results.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Farmers <\/li>\n<li>Russian Films<\/li>\n<li>Silent Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary\u2019s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary writes that this &#8220;simply filmed, lyrical&#8221; film by Alexander Dovzhenko, &#8220;about the formation of a collective in a Ukrainian village&#8221; whose celebration of a tractor purchase is cut tragically short when a murder takes place, is a movie which &#8220;celebrates life&#8221;: while it &#8220;expresses grief for the recent dead, it is more concerned with rebirth than with the inevitable death.&#8221; Peary points out that Dovzhenko links &#8220;people to the soil&#8230;, the crops (there is dignity in work), [and] the farm animals.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Cows.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Cows.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Cows.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Cows-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Cows-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Cows-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While &#8220;several scenes were [originally] deleted for foreign distribution&#8221; &#8212; including &#8220;the peasants cooling down the tractor with their urine (we see connection between man and machine)&#8221;: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Peeing.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Peeing.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Peeing.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Peeing-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Peeing-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Peeing-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; &#8220;Semyon&#8217;s grieving fiancee (Yelina Maximova) tearing off her clothes&#8221;: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Grieving.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Grieving.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Grieving.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Grieving-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Grieving-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Grieving-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and &#8220;a woman giving birth at Semyon&#8217;s funeral&#8221;: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Birth.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Birth.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Birth.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Birth-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Birth-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Birth-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; these have now all been restored to the modern-day version one can easily find online. Peary concludes his review by noting this is &#8220;an optimistic film about people who refuse to be defeated by what might appear to be major setbacks.&#8221;   <\/p>\n<p>Peary&#8217;s review is all accurate, but viewers should be forewarned that this &#8220;landmark&#8221; film &#8212; like Dovzhenko&#8217;s <em>Arsenal<\/em> (1928) &#8212; is heavy on symbolic imagery, and short on narrative depth. We are vaguely introduced to characters who &#8212; appropriate for a collectivist society &#8212; represent an entire class of people rather than nuanced protagonists; what&#8217;s important here is the class struggle, not these individuals. With that caveat in mind, film fanatics will likely appreciate seeing the visual creativity on display, including ample use of montage and &#8220;painterly&#8221; close-ups.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Faces.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Faces.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Faces.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Faces-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Faces-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Faces-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Rain-Fruit.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Rain-Fruit.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Rain-Fruit.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Rain-Fruit-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Rain-Fruit-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Rain-Fruit-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Memorable imagery<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Sunflower-Woman.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Sunflower-Woman.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Sunflower-Woman.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Sunflower-Woman-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Sunflower-Woman-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Sunflower-Woman-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Dancing.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Dancing.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Dancing.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Dancing-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Dancing-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Dancing-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Dancing-Graves.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Dancing-Graves.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Dancing-Graves.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Dancing-Graves-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Dancing-Graves-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Dancing-Graves-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Daniil Demutsky&#8217;s cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Cinematography3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Cinematography3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Cinematography3.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Cinematography3-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Cinematography3-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Cinematography3-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Cinematography2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Cinematography2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Cinematography2.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Cinematography2-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Cinematography2-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Cinematography2-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Cinematography.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Cinematography.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Cinematography.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Cinematography-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Cinematography-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Earth-Cinematography-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, simply for its historical significance in world cinema. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Historically Relevant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> (<span style=\"color:red;font-weight:bold;\">Listed in <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?page_id=1458\"><em>1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die<\/em><\/a><\/span>) <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0021571\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1930\/10\/21\/archives\/the-screen-earth-although-there-are-many-beautifully-photographed.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sensesofcinema.com\/2004\/cteq\/earth\/\">Senses of Cinema Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;May we prosper with the machines!&#8221; Synopsis: A peasant (Semyon Svashenko) whose father (Stepan Shkurat) prefers old-fashioned means of farming arrives in his Ukrainian town with a tractor purchased to help them collectivize &#8212; but a land-owning &#8220;kulak&#8221; (Ivan Franko) and his son (Pyotr Masokha) resist the transition, with lethal results. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Farmers Russian Films Silent Films Response to Peary\u2019s Review: Peary writes that this &#8220;simply filmed, lyrical&#8221; film by Alexander Dovzhenko, &#8220;about the formation of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=73313\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73313"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73349,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73313\/revisions\/73349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}