Cinetrā
Cinetrā
Cinetrā
Joris Ivens’s advocacy documentary for the Republican cause intercuts a besieged Madrid with a nearby village digging an irrigation canal, linking the war to bread, land, and survival. Produced by the writers’ collective Contemporary Historians, edited by Helen van Dongen, scored by Marc Blitzstein, and narrated in its U.S. version by Ernest Hemingway (after an initial Orson Welles track), it blends frontline reportage with persuasion against Franco’s forces and their German–Italian backers.
Cast: Manuel Azaña, José Díaz, Dolores Ibárruri, Enrique Lister, Commander Martinez de Aragón, Gustav Regler, Orson Welles, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Renoir
Writers: Prudencio de Pereda (Writer), John Dos Passos (Writer), Joris Ivens (Writer), Archibald Macleish (Writer), Lillian Hellman (Writer), Ernest Hemingway (Writer)
Cinematographer: John Fernhout
Editor: Helen van Dongen
Composer: Virgil Thomson
Production: Contemporary Historians Inc.
