Key Details

Release StatusReleased

Release Date1929-09-25

Languageru

Runtime2h 5m

Production

Sovkino

6.4(48)

•1929•2h 5m

The General Line

Drama

Overview

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.

Director

Sergei Eisenstein Grigori Aleksandrov

Writing & Screenplay

Grigori Aleksandrov Sergei Eisenstein

Cinematography

Eduard Tisse

Principal Cast

12 credited

Marfa LapkinaMarfa

M. IvaninMarfa's son

Konstantin VasilyevTractor Driver

Vasili BuzenkovSecretary of the milk cooperative

NezhnikovMiroshkin - Schoolmaster

ChukamaryevThe butcher

Ivan YudinKomsomolets

E. SuharevaWitch

G. MatveiPriest

Lev IvanovStudent (uncredited)

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