The General Line

6.4

1929

2h 5m

Drama

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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

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