The General Line

6.4(45 votes)

September 25, 1929

2h 5m

Overview

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.

Director

Sergei Eisenstein

Writers

Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov

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

Vyacheslav Gomolyaka

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The General Line

Overview

Cast

Marfa Lapkina

M. Ivanin

Konstantin Vasilyev

Vasili Buzenkov

Nezhnikov

Chukamaryev

Ivan Yudin

E. Suhareva

G. Matvei

Lev Ivanov

Mikhail Gomorov

Vyacheslav Gomolyaka

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