The General Line (1929)
100.000.000 peasants – illiterate, poor, hungry. There comes a day when one woman decides that she can live the old life no longer. Using ways of new Soviet state and industrial progress, she changes the lives and labours of her village.
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 |
| Directing | Sergei Eisenstein | Director |
| Directing | Mikhail Gomorov | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Maksim Shtraukh | Assistant Director |
| Art | Vasiliy Kovrigin | Art Direction |
| Directing | Grigori Aleksandrov | Director |
| Writing | Grigori Aleksandrov | Writer |
| Art | A. Burov | Art Direction |
| Camera | Eduard Tisse | Director of Photography |
| Art | Vasiliy Rakhals | Production Design |
| Writing | Sergei Eisenstein | Writer |
