Released:
1929-09-25

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.

Directors:
Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov

Runtime:
2h 5min

Genre:
Drama

• 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