

The General Line
1929 Directed by Sergei EisensteinAlso 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.
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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
Director
...........................................................Sergei Eisenstein
Grigori Aleksandrov
Writer
...........................................................Grigori Aleksandrov
Assistant Director
...........................................................Mikhail Gomorov
Maksim Shtraukh
Scenario Writer
...........................................................Sergei Eisenstein
Art Direction
...........................................................A. Burov
Production Companies
...................................................Sovkino
Production Countries
........................................................Soviet Union
Spoken Languages
....................................................No Language
Genres
....................................................Drama
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