Trouble results in a Ukrainian village when a landowner refuses to hand over his land for a collective farm. Earth is the third film of director Alexander Dovzhenko's "Ukraine Trilogy" (along with Zvenigora and Arsenal).
The film's melodramatic plot takes second place to lyrical, radiant sequences of rustic beauty, illustrating life, love and death in the countryside, of a quality that at the time had never before been seen on film. Earth is usually considered Dovzhenko's best film, and is often cited alongside Sergei Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin (1925) as one of the most important films of the Soviet era.
The film's melodramatic plot takes second place to lyrical, radiant sequences of rustic beauty, illustrating life, love and death in the countryside, of a quality that at the time had never before been seen on film. Earth is usually considered Dovzhenko's best film, and is often cited alongside Sergei Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin (1925) as one of the most important films of the Soviet era.