The General Line
(1929)

Released: 1929-09-25

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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.

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Marfa Lapkina

as Marfa

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M. Ivanin

as Marfa's son

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Konstantin Vasilyev

as Tractor Driver

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Vasili Buzenkov

as Secretary of the milk cooperative

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Nejnikov

as Miroshkin - Schoolmaster

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Chukamaryev

as The butcher

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Ivan Yudin

as Komsomolets

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E. Suhareva

as Witch

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G. Matvei

as Priest

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Lev Ivanov

as Student (uncredited)

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Sergei Eisenstein

Scenario Writer

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Sergei Eisenstein

Director

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Grigori Aleksandrov

Writer

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Grigori Aleksandrov

Director

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Vasili Kovrigin

Art Direction

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A. Burov

Art Direction

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Mikhail Gomorov

Assistant Director

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Maksim Shtraukh

Assistant Director

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Eduard Tisse

Director of Photography

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Vasiliy Rakhals

Production Design

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