Jews on Land () is a 1927 Soviet short documentary film directed by

Abram Room Abram Matveyevich Room (; real name Abram Mordkhelevich Rom, ; 28 June 1894, Vilnius, Vilna – 26 July 1976, Moscow) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. Biography In 1914-1917 he studied at the Bekhterev Psychoneurological Institute, St. ...

Plot

The Soviet propaganda documentary "The Jew and the Earth" was filmed by

OZET OZET ( romanised: Obshchestvo zemleustroystva yevreyskikh trudyashchikhsya, Yiddish: געזעלשאפט פאר איינארדענען ארבעטנדיקע יידן אויף ערד אין פ.ס.ס.ר romanised: ''Gezelshaft far aynordnen oyf Erd ...

as part of a campaign against anti-Semitism in the USSR in the late 1920s. The film shows how the Jewish workers colonize the

Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal sea, marginal Mediterranean sea (oceanography), mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bound ...

area and

Crimea Crimea ( ) is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov. The Isthmus of Perekop connects the peninsula to Kherson Oblast in mainland Ukrain ...

n lands. The communes are created for successful development of the abandoned lands, in which people are living only internal colonial life. Jewish colonists are represented as one large family against the backdrop of manifestations of anti-Semitism that intensified in the USSR in the late 1920s.

Crew

* Director -

* Writers -

Vladimir Mayakovsky Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky ( – 14 April 1930) was a Russian poet, playwright, artist, and actor. During his early, Russian Revolution, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the Ru ...

, and

Viktor Shklovsky Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky ( rus, Ви́ктор Бори́сович Шкло́вский, p=ˈʂklofskʲɪj; – 6 December 1984) was a Russian and Soviet literary theorist, critic, writer, and pamphleteer. He is one of the major figures asso ...

* Cameraman - Albert Queen * Assistant director -

Lilya Brik Lilya Yuryevna Brik (alternatively spelled ''Lili'' or ''Lily''; ; née Kagan; – August 4, 1978) was a Russian author and socialite, connected to many leading figures in the Russian avant-garde between 1914 and 1930. She was the lover and mus ...

References

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site. 1927 films 1920s Russian-language films Soviet silent short films Soviet black-and-white films Soviet short documentary films 1927 documentary films Black-and-white documentary films 1920s short documentary films Documentary films about Jews and Judaism Jews and Judaism in the Soviet Union 1920s Soviet films {{1920s-USSR-film-stub