Blood and Soil
1933 · 28 MIN · IMDB 4.7 · 23 VOTES · DIR. Walter Ruttmann, Hans von Passavant, Rolf von Sonjevski-Jamrowski
Overview
Blood and Soil (German: Blut und Boden) refers to the ideology focussing on a concept of ethnicity based on descent (Blood) and homeland (Soil). It celebrates the relationship of a people to the land that they occupy and cultivate and places high esteem on the virtues of the bucolic (as opposed to urban) living. From this propaganda film, we learn, how hard it is to be a peasant when liberals rule the state. A family of peasants is forced to sell their property and run away to a big city, where they are forced to live in the poverty. Thankfully when the Nazis take power, they may finally come back and live a happy life. Besides the main plot, there is also educational elements here: Germans are informed how few of them will remain in 2050 year if they don't start a mass reproduction.
Dialogue Timeline — 126 lines
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00:00:01 (Illegible) presents:
00:03:16 Sleep, child, sleep.
00:03:47 300 years! That's a long time.
00:04:34 -Is the baby sleeping? -Yes, yes.
00:04:52 "The forced sale of the mill owned by Johannes Schneider will surely take place on Wednesday at 11 a.m. Details in the Classified section."
00:06:29 Come in.
00:07:00 Why can our German farmers not sell?
00:08:30 The German citizen bought the foreign products thoughtlessly
00:09:26 It must be a problem with the barrel.
00:10:00 A new machine is what we need.
00:10:25 We are, too.
00:10:49 If only the people knew.
00:11:20 No, it's really not possible.
00:12:04 In the City
00:12:45 Employment Agency
00:14:21 Old German farms were sold down to the last piece.
00:15:12 I can't watch anymore!
00:15:38 38 marks, for the second time, and sold!
00:16:48 Stock Market!
00:17:52 The stream of homestead-less farmers was relentless.
00:20:01 Mama, look.
00:21:58 For example, if one closed off Berlin to immigration from the countryside
00:23:51 There lies the ideal place to live.
16:05:04 destroyed in this manner.