The General Line

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.

6.4

125 min

Cast

Marfa Lapkina

as Marfa

M. Ivanin

as Marfa's son

Konstantin Vasilyev

as Tractor Driver

Vasili Buzenkov

as Secretary of the milk cooperative

Nezhnikov

as Miroshkin - Schoolmaster

Chukamaryev

as The butcher

Ivan Yudin

as Komsomolets

E. Suhareva

as Witch

G. Matvei

as Priest

Lev Ivanov

as Student (uncredited)

Mikhail Gomorov

Vyacheslav Gomolyaka

Director

Sergei Eisenstein

Grigori Aleksandrov