Fresh
The film develops parallel connections between farmers creating an irrigation system and civilian defenders of the besieged Spanish republic.
Pat Graham, Chicago Reader
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Joris Ivens Director
- Manuel Azaña as Himself (President of Spain)
- José Díaz as Himself (Parliamentarian)
- Dolores Ibárruri as Herself
- Enrique Lister as Himself (Republican Army)
- Commander Martinez de Aragón as Himself (Republican Army)
- Gustav Regler as Himself (German writer)
- Orson Welles as Narrator (voice)
- Ernest Hemingway as Narrator (voice)
- Jean Renoir as Narrator (voice)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Fresh
Its technique is that of the film document, but Hemingway's narrative makes it a definitely propagandist effort.
New York Times
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