New Earth [Nieuwe gronden]

Release Year
1933
Runtime
30m
Genres
Documentary
Directed By
Joris Ivens
New Earth

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).

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