1929
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.
Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.
US availability. Subject to change.
Directors: Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Writers: Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein
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
Komsomolets
E. Suhareva
Witch
G. Matvei
Priest
Lev Ivanov
Student (uncredited)
Mikhail Gomorov
Vyacheslav Gomolyaka
