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Aro Recommended Earth

 

aka: Zemlya
Russian Federation 1930, 70/31 minutes
Dir. Alexander Dovzhenko
In Russian with English subtitles
Rating: [PG]
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Classics / Silent Cinema

 

Aroview: One of the poetic highpoints of Soviet cinema, this sets its simple tale amid the life of a Ukrainian peasant village undergoing modernization after the death of a elderly farmer.

Particularly renowned for its visual imagery and moving depiction of communal life. This disc also contains the half-hour reconstructed version of Sergei Eisenstein's lost 1937 film of Turgenev's short-story 'Bezhin Meadow'.

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  • aspect ratio: 4:3 (original academy)
 

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