New Earth
- IMDb link: 0025561
- IMDb rating: 7 (283 votes) Search
- Genres: Short, Documentary
- Director: Joris Ivens
- Release date: 4 Jun 2012
- Release year: 1933
- Runtime: 36 minutes
- Country: Netherlands
- Keywords: year 1933, 1930s, 20th century, sea drainage, farmer, economics, breaker, dutch economics, zuider zee, brutality
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The film is a documentary portraying a struggle as man tries to subdue nature. To prevent flooding and for purposes of land reclamation, the people of the Netherlands struggle and succeed in building a breaker, thereby eliminating the wild inland body of water once known as the Zuider Zee (now called Ijsselmeer).
The first two-thirds cover the land reclamation of the Netherland's Zuider Zee for the purpose of raising additional food. The final third ironically covers irate farmers dumping the first year's wheat crop back into the sea trying to maintain prices in a bottomed-out market, cross-cut with the hallow-eyed faces of hungry children.
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