About the film

The General Line

19296125 min

Drama

Also known as The Old and the New, 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.

Directors

Sergei EisensteinGrigori Aleksandrov

Actors

Marfa LapkinaMarfa M. IvaninMarfa's son Konstantin VasilyevTractor Driver Vasili BuzenkovSecretary of the milk cooperative NezhnikovMiroshkin - Schoolmaster ChukamaryevThe butcher

Ivan YudinKomsomolets E. SuharevaWitch G. MatveiPriest Lev IvanovStudent (uncredited)Mikhail Gomorov Vyacheslav Gomolyaka

Released

Sep 25, 1929

Country

Soviet Union

Production

Sovkino

The General Line

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