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Native Land (1942)
By the start of World War II, Paul Robeson had given up his lucrative mainstream work to participate in more socially progressive film and stage productions. Robeson committed his support to Paul Strand and Leo Hurwitz’s political semidocumentary Native Land. With Robeson’s narration and songs, this beautifully shot and edited film exposes violations of Americans’ civil liberties and is a call to action for exploited workers around the country. Scarcely shown since its debut, Native Land represents Robeson’s shift from narrative cinema to the leftist documentaries that would define the final chapter of his controversial film career.
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By the start of World War II, Paul Robeson had given up his lucrative mainstream work to participate in more socially progressive film and stage productions. Robeson committed his support to Paul Strand and Leo Hurwitz’s political semidocumentary Native Land. With Robeson’s narration and songs, this beautifully shot and edited film exposes violations of Americans’ civil liberties and is a call to action for exploited workers around the country. Scarcely shown since its debut, Native Land represents Robeson’s shift from narrative cinema to the leftist documentaries that would define the final chapter of his controversial film career.
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Genre:Drama, History
Written By:Leo Hurwitz, Ben Maddow, Paul Strand
In Theaters:5/11/1942
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Runtime:89 minutes
Studio:Frontier Films
Cast
Leo Hurwitz, Paul Strand
Director
Paul Robeson
Narrator
Fred Johnson
Fred Hill
Mary George
Hill's Wife
John Rennick
Hill's Son
Amelia Romano
Young Girl in Cleveland
Houseley Stevenson
White Sharecropper
Louis Grant
Black Sharecropper
James Hanney
Mack
Howard Da Silva
Jim
Art Smith
Harry Carlyle
Robert Strauss
Frank Mason, grocer
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