Earth
1930, NR, 62 min.
Directed by Alexander Dovzhenko, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Stepan Shkurat, Semyon Svashenko.

Dovzhenko’s most celebrated film has long been a staple of greatest world cinema lists. Earth takes its agitprop story about the wonders of Soviet collectivization and turns it into a poetic – almost Jungian – visual meditation on the organic cycles of life and death. If you’re only going to see one Dovzhenko film in this series, this is the one to pick.

This article appears in September 13 • 2002.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.