Original soundtrack, English or Dutch subtitles. COLLECTION: Wigwam (1912) / Etudes des mouvements a Paris (1927) / De Brug (1928) / Regen (1929) / Philips Radio (1931) / Komsomol (1933) / Nieuwe gronden (1933) / Borinage (1934) / THe SPanish Earth (1937) / The 400 Million (1939) / Power and the Land (1940) / Indonesia Calling (1946) / La Seine a rencontre Paris (1957) / ... a Valparaiso (1963) / Europoort (1966) / Pour le Mistral (1966) / Le 17em Parallele (1968) / La Pharmacie no 3 Shanghai (1976) / Une histoire de ballon (1976) / Une Histoire de vent (1988). Joris Ivens (November 18, 1898, Nijmegen June 28, 1989, Paris) was a Dutch documentary filmmaker and devout communist. Probably the best known of his early films is his 10-minute short Rain (Regen, 1929). Born into a wealthy family, Ivens went to work in his father's photo supply shop and from there developed an interest in film. He completed his first film at 13; in college he studied economics with the goal of continuing his father's business, but an interest in class issues distracted him from that path. Originally his work focused on technique--some argue that it had that focus at the cost of relevance, especially in Rain, filmed over 2 years and featuring impressive cinematography and a number of "characters" (but no information about them aside from what was visible) and in The Bridge (De Brug, 1928), which showed a frank admiration of engineering and also featured a number of "characters" but again did not give any information about them. In 1931 Ivens went to the Soviet-Union to make Song of Heroes, a propaganda film about the construction of the new industrial city of Magnitogorsk. This city was mainly built by forced labourers, who however were portrayed by Ivens as communist volunteers. Ivens later referred to these forced labourers as 'weed'.