The General Line (1929)
Also known as The Old and the New (Staroye i Novoye), 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.
Directors: Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov.
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Marfa Lapkina as Marfa |
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M. Ivanin as Marfa's son |
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Konstantin Vasilyev as Tractor Driver |
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Vasili Buzenkov as Secretary of the milk cooperative |
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Nezhnikov as Miroshkin - Schoolmaster |
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Chukamaryev as The butcher |
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Ivan Yudin as Komsomolets |
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E. Suhareva as Witch |
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G. Matvei as Priest |
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Lev Ivanov as Student (uncredited) |
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Mikhail Gomorov as |
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Vyacheslav Gomolyaka as |
| Writing | Sergei Eisenstein | Scenario Writer |
| Directing | Sergei Eisenstein | Director |
| Writing | Grigori Aleksandrov | Writer |
| Directing | Grigori Aleksandrov | Director |
| Art | Vasiliy Kovrigin | Art Direction |
| Art | A. Burov | Art Direction |
| Directing | Mikhail Gomorov | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Maksim Shtraukh | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Eduard Tisse | Director of Photography |
| Art | Vasiliy Rakhals | Production Design |
