New Earth
MovieTitle | Nieuwe gronden |
User score | 6.9 |
Release date | Dec 14, 1933 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Joris Ivens |
Production country | Netherlands |
Production companies | Capi-Holland |
Run time | 30 min. |
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).