1929
6.5 (40 votes)
2h 5m
Genres
Drama
Production Companies
Sovkino
The General Line (Старое и новое)
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.
Key Crew
Director: Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Writer: Grigori Aleksandrov
Director of Photography: Eduard Tisse
Top 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
