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.
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Marfa Lapkina
Marfa
M. Ivanin
Marfa's son
Konstantin Vasilyev
Tractor Driver
Vasili Buzenkov
Secretary of the milk cooperative
Nejnikov
Miroshkin - Schoolmaster
Chukamaryev
The butcher
Ivan Yudin
Komsomolets
E. Suhareva
Witch
G. Matvei
Priest
Lev Ivanov
Student (uncredited)
Sergei Eisenstein
Director
Scenario Writer
Grigori Aleksandrov
Writer
A. Burov
Art Direction
Vasili Kovrigin
Mikhail Gomorov
Assistant Director
Maksim Shtraukh
Eduard Tisse
Director of Photography
Vasiliy Rakhals
Production Design
