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EARTH

ALEKSANDR DOVZHENKO | 75 min | Ukraine | 1930

Dovzhenko, born in present-day Ukraine, depicts the collectivization of farming—and the staunch opposition of kulak landowners to the newly empowered peasantry—in what’s widely regarded as his masterpiece, a work of poetic grandeur that pulses with a connection to the cycles of nature, the rural landscape, and the people who work its soil.


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