This is the first ,and possibly the best, poetic film in the history of cinema.This is where everything started from.Tarkovsky,Paradjanov ...nothing would have been the same without Dozhenko and "Earth".The seed of a whole way of perception of life and universe seems to have been planted here.It is also the seed of maybe the best method of expression in cinematic form along with Bresson's first period (1950-59).A masterpiece so rare and solid,which goes straight to the point and shows the filmmaker's philosophy from the first until the last shot.A true monument of art with a transcendent power that scarcely can be achieved,"Earth" could have been the first or the last film ever on our planet.And this proves the unprecedented perfection and originality of it.
