The General Line (1929)
Staroye i novoye
121 min
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.
- Release date
- September 25, 1929
- Country of origin
- Russia
- Music
- Taras Buyevsky, Robert Israel
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Cast
- Marfa Lapkina as Marfa
- Ivan Yudin as Komsomolets
- Mikhail Gomorov
- M. Ivanin as Marfa's son
- Konstantin Vasilyev as Tractor Driver
- Vasili Buzenkov as Secretary of the milk cooperative
- Nejnikov as Miroshkin - Schoolmaster
- Chukamaryev as The butcher
- E. Suhareva as Witch
- G. Matvei as Priest
- Efimkin as Peasant
Crew
- Grigoriy Aleksandrov · Director
- Sergei Eisenstein · Director
- Grigoriy Aleksandrov · Writer
- Sergei Eisenstein · Writer
- Taras Buyevsky · Composer
- Robert Israel · Composer
- Eduard Tisse · Cinematographer