Ukraine | 1930 | Feature Film | 83’ | Original Version with English Subtitles

Avant-garde Earth, a recognized cinema masterpiece, was banned 9 days after release and glorified in Ukraine only after Dovzhenko’s death, bringing forth dozens of controversial interpretations. Full of lyrical pantheism and utopian exaltation, it demonstrated the ambiguity of Ukrainian geopolitical choice in the 1920s. The new soundtrack for Earth was created by Ukrainian ethno-chaos band DakhaBrakha, whose music shifts the emphasis from the film’s ideological connotations to universal ones.

The film is provided by Dovzhenko-center and will be introduced by Oleksii Isakov - a research assistant and Ph.D. candidate in the research project “Europäische Zeiten/European Times” (EUTIM) at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). His research focus lies in the field of Ukrainian Poetic Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s in the cultural and political context of the Thaw period.