Earthy Love (Russian: Любовь земная, romanized: Lyubov zemnaya) is a 1974 Soviet romantic drama film directed by Yevgeny Matveyev and starring Matveyev, Olga Ostroumova, and Yury Yakovlev.

The film was a screen adaptation of Pyotr Proskurin's novel Earthy Love, and was viewed by 50.9 million spectators in 1975.

[1] Yevgeny Matveyev was honored with the State Prize of the RSFSR for Earthy Love and Destiny.

[2] A story about love, the late chairman of the collective farm Zakhar Derugin (Yevgeny Matveev) marries the young woman Maria Polivanova (Olga Ostroumova) at the height of the harvest.

There is a parallel developing romance between Catherine and her sister Derugin secretary of the District Party Committee Bryukhanov.