The General Line (1929)
25/09/1929
Drama
2h 5m
- 65% (40 votes)
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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.
- Sergei EisensteinDirector
- Grigori AleksandrovDirector, Writer
Original Title
Старое и новое
Status
Released
Original Language
Russian
Top Billed Cast
Marfa Lapkina
Marfa
M. Ivanin
Marfa's son
Konstantin Vasilyev
Tractor Driver
Vasili Buzenkov
Secretary of the milk cooperative
Nejnikov
Miroshkin - Schoolmaster
Chukamaryev
The butcher
Ivan Yudin
Komsomolets
E. Suhareva
Witch
G. Matvei
Priest
Lev Ivanov
Student (uncredited)
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