The General Line

2h 5m
Drama
6.3

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.

Cast

Marfa Lapkina
Marfa
M. Ivanin
Marfa's son
Konstantin Vasilyev
Tractor Driver
Vasili Buzenkov
Secretary of the milk cooperative
Nezhnikov
Miroshkin - Schoolmaster
Chukamaryev
The butcher
Ivan Yudin
Komsomolets
E. Suhareva
Witch
G. Matvei
Priest
Lev Ivanov
Student (uncredited)
Mikhail Gomorov
Unknown
Vyacheslav Gomolyaka
Unknown

Crew

Sergei Eisenstein
Director, Scenario Writer
Grigori Aleksandrov
Director, Writer
Eduard Tisse
Director of Photography
Mikhail Gomorov
Assistant Director
Maksim Shtraukh
Assistant Director
Vasiliy Rakhals
Production Design
A. Burov
Art Direction
Vasiliy Kovrigin
Art Direction

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