
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.
Top Billed Cast
Marfa Lapkina
Marfa
M. Ivanin
Marfa's son
Konstantin Vasilyev
Tractor Driver
Vasili Buzenkov
Secretary of the milk cooperative
Nejnikov
Miroshkin - Schoolmaster
Featured Crew

Sergei Eisenstein
Director

Sergei Eisenstein
Scenario Writer

Grigori Aleksandrov
Director

Grigori Aleksandrov
Writer
A. Burov
Art Direction

Vasili Kovrigin
Art Direction
Mikhail Gomorov
Assistant Director

Maksim Shtraukh
Assistant Director

Eduard Tisse
Director of Photography

Vasiliy Rakhals
Production Design