The General Line

Overview

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.

Directed by Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov

Top cast

M

Marfa Lapkina

Marfa

M

M. Ivanin

Marfa's son

K

Konstantin Vasilyev

Tractor Driver

V

Vasili Buzenkov

Secretary of the milk cooperative

N

Nezhnikov

Miroshkin - Schoolmaster

C

Chukamaryev

The butcher

Ivan Yudin

Komsomolets

E

E. Suhareva

Witch

G

G. Matvei

Priest

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Lev Ivanov

Student (uncredited)

M

Mikhail Gomorov

V

Vyacheslav Gomolyaka

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