The General Line
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.
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
Featured Crew
Sergei Eisenstein
Director
Sergei Eisenstein
Scenario Writer
Mikhail Gomorov
Assistant Director
Maksim Shtraukh
Assistant Director
Vasili Kovrigin
Art Direction
Grigori Aleksandrov
Director
Grigori Aleksandrov
Writer
A. Burov
Art Direction
Eduard Tisse
Director of Photography
Vasiliy Rakhals
Production Design
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