The General Line

Overview

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.

Director: Sergei Eisenstein

Cast

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Marfa Lapkina

Marfa

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M. Ivanin

Marfa's son

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Konstantin Vasilyev

Tractor Driver

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Vasili Buzenkov

Secretary of the milk cooperative

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Nezhnikov

Miroshkin - Schoolmaster

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Chukamaryev

The butcher

Ivan Yudin

Komsomolets

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E. Suhareva

Witch

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G. Matvei

Priest

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Lev Ivanov

Student (uncredited)