Brecht-Tage 2026: »aufzeigend das mögliche«. Die »wissenschaftlich-technische Revolution« in sowjetischen Filmen, Teil 2: »Erde«

In the organizer's words:

Oleksandr Dovzhenko's "Earth" is considered one of the greatest films of all time. This masterpiece of the Soviet cinematic avant-garde uses montage images that have become iconic to show how the collectivization of agriculture during the First Five-Year Plan radically changed farming traditions in Ukraine. When the film was made, the fatal consequences of this violent industrialization policy and the famines it triggered were not yet known. Today, Dovzhenko's "Earth" is above all a unique work of cinematic art that depicts the relationship to the transformation of nature at that time in unforgettable and emotionally stirring poetic film images.

Film: Earth (Oleksandr Dovzhenko, USSR 1930, 75 min., silent film with English subtitles)