The General Line (1929)

Drama

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.

Cast

Marfa
M Marfa Lapkina
Marfa's son
M M. Ivanin
Tractor Driver
K Konstantin Vasilyev
Secretary of the milk cooperative
V Vasili Buzenkov
Miroshkin - Schoolmaster
N Nejnikov
The butcher
C Chukamaryev
Komsomolets
I Ivan Yudin
Witch
E E. Suhareva
Priest
G G. Matvei

Crew

Director
Sergei Eisenstein
Scenario Writer
Sergei Eisenstein
Director
Grigori Aleksandrov
Writer
Grigori Aleksandrov
Art Direction
A A. Burov
Art Direction
Vasili Kovrigin
Assistant Director
Mikhail Gomorov
Assistant Director
Maksim Shtraukh
Art Direction
Vasiliy Rakhals
Director of Photography
Eduard Tisse