The General Line
65 %|Sep 25, 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.
Featured Crew
Sergei Eisenstein
Scenario Writer
Sergei Eisenstein
Director
Grigori Aleksandrov
Writer
Grigori Aleksandrov
Director
Vasili Kovrigin
Art Direction
A. Burov
Art Direction
Mikhail Gomorov
Assistant Director
Maksim Shtraukh
Assistant Director
Cast
Marfa Lapkina
Marfa
M. Ivanin
Marfa's son
Konstantin Vasilyev
Tractor Driver
Vasili Buzenkov
Secretary of the milk cooperative
Nejnikov
Miroshkin - Schoolmaster
Chukamaryev
The butcher
Ivan Yudin
Komsomolets
E. Suhareva
Witch
G. Matvei
Priest
Lev Ivanov
Student (uncredited)