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6.6Joris Ivens’s advocacy documentary for the Republican cause intercuts a besieged Madrid with a nearby village digging an irrigation canal, linking the war to bread, land, and survival. Produced by the writers’ collective Contemporary Historians, edited by Helen van Dongen, scored by Marc Blitzstein, and narrated in its U.S. version by Ernest Hemingway (after an initial Orson Welles track), it blends frontline reportage with persuasion against Franco’s forces and their German–Italian backers.
Released: 1937-07-1053 minDir: Joris IvensDocumentary
Cast
- Manuel Azaña as Himself (President of Spain)
- José Díaz as Himself (Parliamentarian)
- Dolores Ibárruri as Herself
- Enrique Lister as Himself (Republican Army)
- Commander Martinez de Aragón as Himself (Republican Army)
- Gustav Regler as Himself (German writer)
Themes
- spanish civil war (1936-39)
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1937 American films1937 documentary films1937 filmsAmerican black-and-white filmsAmerican documentary filmsAmerican propaganda films about SpainAnti-fascist propaganda filmsCompositions by Marc BlitzsteinErnest HemingwayFilms directed by Joris IvensSpanish Civil War filmsTemplate film date with 1 release date