Spanish Earth, The Reel 5 of 6

The Spanish Earth Reel 5 of 6 Produced & directed by Joris Ivens / Co-written & Narrated by Ernest Hemingway Father returns home to greet his son - villagers gather round. Soldier drills village boys. 21:35:36 Drilling of battalion of bullfighters & athletes in Madrid. Soldiers bid farewell to girlfriends & families. Sandbags along roadside - air attack on Madrid - people running in street - explosions & panic - ambulance w/ siren - boys look for shell fragments among debris - dead bodies in hallway. 21:38:51 Bombing of village - German Junker planes spotted overhead - bomb hits - women weeping - rubble in street - CUs corpses of dead women - young boys in soldiers’ uniforms. Wreckage of downed Junker. Dead Italian troops - VO says they signed up to work in Ethiopia. Spanish Civil War. Anti-Fascism.