The General Line
The General Line
Drama

The General Line

1929
125 min
6.4
64.0%
User Score
(47 votes)

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.

DIRECTED BY

Sergei Eisenstein

STARRING

Marfa Lapkina, M. Ivanin, Konstantin Vasilyev, Vasili Buzenkov, Nezhnikov

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Cast

Marfa Lapkina

Marfa

M. Ivanin

Marfa's son

Konstantin Vasilyev

Tractor Driver

Vasili Buzenkov

Secretary of the milk cooperative

Nezhnikov

Miroshkin - Schoolmaster

Chukamaryev

The butcher

Ivan Yudin

Ivan Yudin

Komsomolets

E. Suhareva

Witch

G. Matvei

Priest

Lev Ivanov

Student (uncredited)

Mikhail Gomorov

Vyacheslav Gomolyaka