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The General Line

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7 Nov 1929

Description

Also known as The Old and the New, The General Line illustrates Lenin’s stated imperative that the nation move from agrarian to industrial culture in an epic ode to farm-collectivization progress.

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Cast

  • Marfa Lapkina Martha
  • M. Ivanin Martha's son
  • Konstantin Vasilyev tractor-driver
  • Neyninkov Miroshkin
  • Chukamaryev butcher
  • Ivan Yudin komsomol member
  • E. Sukhareva witch
  • G. Matvey priest
  • Vasili Buzenkov Secretary of the milk cooperative
  • Nezhnikov Miroshkin - Schoolmaster
  • E. Suhareva Witch
  • G. Matvei Priest
  • Lev Ivanov Student (uncredited)
  • Mikhail Gomorov
  • Vyacheslav Gomolyaka

Director

  • Sergei Eisenstein
  • Grigori Aleksandrov
  • Mikhail Gomorov
  • Maksim Shtraukh

Screenwriter

  • Sergei Eisenstein
  • Grigori Aleksandrov

Director of Photography

  • Eduard Tisse

Producer

  • Sovkino