Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925)
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- 1h 11min
- Documentary
- 18 Feb 1926 (Denmark)
- Movie
The struggles of a hardscrabble Iranian nomadic tribe as they journey through bleak country to reach the grasslands that will save their livestock.
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Cast
| Merian C. Cooper | ... |
Self
(as Merian Cooper)
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| Ernest B. Schoedsack | ... |
Self
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Marguerite Harrison | ... |
Self - a Journalist
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Haidar Khan | ... |
Self - Chief of the Bakhtyari Tribe
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Lufta | ... |
Self - Haidar Khan's Son
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Directed by
| Merian C. Cooper | ... | (uncredited) |
| Ernest B. Schoedsack | ... | (uncredited) |
Written by
| Richard Carver | ... | (titled by) (as Richard P. Carver) |
| Terry Ramsaye | ... | (titled by) |
Produced by
| Merian C. Cooper | ... | producer (uncredited) |
| Ernest B. Schoedsack | ... | producer (uncredited) |
Cinematography by
| Merian C. Cooper | ... | (recorded for the screen by) |
| Marguerite Harrison | ... | (recorded for the screen by) |
| Ernest B. Schoedsack | ... | (recorded for the screen by) |
Editing by
| Richard Carver | ... | (edited by) (as Richard P. Carver) |
| Terry Ramsaye | ... | (edited by) |
Music Department
| Hugo Riesenfeld | ... | music arranger (uncredited) |
Additional Crew
| Jesse L. Lasky | ... | presenter |
| Adolph Zukor | ... | presenter |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Paramount Pictures (1955) (United States) (theatrical)
- Famous-Lasky Film Service (1926) (United Kingdom) (theatrical)
- Famous-Lasky Film Service (1926) (Canada) (theatrical)
- Famous-Lasky Film Service (1926) (Australia) (theatrical)
- Milestone Film & Video (World-wide)
- Milestone Film & Video (1992) (United States) (VHS)
- Image Entertainment (2000) (United States) (DVD)
- Milestone Film & Video (2003) (United States) (DVD)
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Storyline
| Plot Summary |
The real-life struggles of the Bakhtiari tribe of Southern Persia (Iran) to migrate with 50,000 people and ten times as much livestock over seemingly impassable natural barriers of mountain and river during harsh weather conditions to reach grazing lands for their cattle and other livestock. Their hardscrabble life is portrayed with poetically beautiful cinematography in possibly the greatest documentary of the silent era. Written by duke1029@aol.com |
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| Taglines | The Story of a Nation on the March staged by Destiny in a land blasted by the crimson thumb print of disaster (Print Ad- Knickerbocker Press, ((Albany NY)) 20 June 1926) See more » |
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Box Office
| Budget | $12,000 (estimated) |
Did You Know?
| Trivia | Vita Sackville-West once 'dragged' Virginia Woolf to see this film with her. See more » |
| Goofs | (at around 31 mins) The title card states "All the fifty thousand of the Bakhtyari must go the way of Haidar ..." A couple minutes later, a title card states "The tramp of fifty thousand feet!" Either the number of feet should be doubled or the number of Bakhyari halved. See more » |
| Movie Connections | Featured in The Last Outpost (1935). See more » |
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Opening Title Card:
The way of the world is west. See more » |