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The General Line

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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.

Status: Released

Released Date: 1929-09-25

Runtime: 125 mins

Director: Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov

Writer: Grigori Aleksandrov

Spoken language: No Language

Genres: Drama

Original title: The General Line

Production Companies: Sovkino

Production Countries: Soviet Union

Cast

Marfa

Marfa Lapkina

Marfa's son

M. Ivanin

Tractor Driver

Konstantin Vasilyev

Secretary of the milk cooperative

Vasili Buzenkov

Miroshkin - Schoolmaster

Nezhnikov

Chukamaryev

Ivan Yudin

E. Suhareva

G. Matvei

Lev Ivanov

Mikhail Gomorov

Vyacheslav Gomolyaka

The General Line

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