It's the Earth Not the Moon
2012, Portuguese. Directed by Gonçalo Tocha.
A cameraman and a soundman arrive in Corvo in 2007, the smallest island in the archipelago of the Azores. Right in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Corvo is a large rock, 6km high and 4km long, with the crater of a volcano and a single tiny village of 440 people. Gradually, this small filming crew is accepted by the island’s population as its new inhabitants, two people to add to a civilization almost 500 years old, whose history is hardly discernible, such is the lack of records and written memories. Shot at a vertiginous pace throughout a few years, self‐produced between arrivals, departures and coming‐backs, “It’s the Earth not the Moon” develops as the logbook of a ship, and turns out as a patchwork of discoveries and experiences, which follow the contemporary life of a civilization isolated in the middle of the sea. A long atlantic film‐odissey, divided in 14 chapters, that combines anthropological records, literature, lost archives, mythological and autobiographical stories.
- Runtime
- 3h 13m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Portuguese
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It's the Earth Not the Moon is streaming on DocAlliance Films in India.
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- Released
- 29 March 2012
- Original title
- É na Terra Não é na Lua
- Country
- Portugal
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It's the Earth Not the Moon runs 193 minutes (3h 13m).
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Who directed It's the Earth Not the Moon?
It's the Earth Not the Moon (2012) was directed by Gonçalo Tocha and stars Dídio Pestana, Gonçalo Tocha.