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ZEMLYA – A.K.A EARTH – 1930 – STEPAN SHKURAT – SILENT – RARE DVD
Directed by Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Cast: Stepan Shkurat – Semyon Svashenko Yuliya Solntseva – Yelena Maksimova Vasili’s Fiancee – Nikolai Nademsky
Dovzhenko’s “film poem” explores life, death, violence, and sex through his epic montage.
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 exploration of death and other dark issues that come with revolution.
