One Paragraph Movie Review: Zemlyo/Earth

One hundred and twenty-fourth film: Zemlyo, or in English rather than Russian: Earth. At the risk of shaking any opinions you currently hold about 1930s Soviet silent cinema, it is not known for its whimsical comedic stylings, which is nowhere more apparent than in this dour, thumping chore. Starting and finishing with a man dying near some apples, the only relief from slow, angry agricultural revolution is found in a scene where farmers address a tractor’s empty radiator by pissing in it, and one rogue pair of buttocks. The story — a death during an uprising serving to further cement the resolve of the uprisers — feels like it makes this film very important indeed, but it is absolutely not my cup of borscht. One embroidered farmer blouse out of five.