The Magic Beam (1963)
“The Magic Beam” is a film essay woven together from newsreels and documentary material from different decades, fragments of hundreds of non-fiction and fiction Soviet films of the 1910s-1960s.
Directors: Leonid Makhnach, Iosif Poselsky, Roman Karmen, Vasily Katanyan.
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Vladimir Lenin as Self (archive footage) |
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Sergei Eisenstein as Self (archive footage) |
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Eduard Tisse as Self (archive footage) |
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Boris Babochkin as Self (archive footage) |
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Sergey Vasilev as Self (archive footage) |
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Georgi Vasilyev as Self (archive footage) |
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Ilya Trauberg as Self (archive footage) |
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Grigori Kozintsev as Self (archive footage) |
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Vsevolod Pudovkin as Self (archive footage) |
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Fridrikh Ermler as Self (archive footage) |
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Maxim Gorky as Self (archive footage) |
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Yuli Raizman as Self (archive footage) |
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Dmitri Shostakovich as Self (archive footage) |
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Isaak Dunayevsky as Self (archive footage) |
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Grigori Aleksandrov as Self (archive footage) |
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Dziga Vertov as Self (archive footage) |
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Elizaveta Svilova as Self (archive footage) |
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Ilya Kopalin as Self (archive footage) |
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Arsha Ovanesova as Self (archive footage) |
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Samuil Bubrik as Self (archive footage) |
| Directing | Leonid Makhnach | Director |
| Writing | Roman Karmen | Writer |
| Writing | Aleksandr Novogrudsky | Writer |
| Camera | Leonid Kotlyarenko | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Igor Bgantsev | Camera Operator |
| Directing | Iosif Poselsky | Director |
| Directing | Roman Karmen | Director |
| Directing | Vasily Katanyan | Director |
| Camera | Vladimir Tsitron | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Valentina Georgievskaya | Sound |
| Directing | Marina Babak | Assistant Director |