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.

• Sergei EisensteinDirector
• Grigori AleksandrovDirector
• Grigori AleksandrovWriter

• Marfa LapkinaMarfa
• M. IvaninMarfa's son
• Konstantin VasilyevTractor Driver
• Vasili BuzenkovSecretary of the milk cooperative
• NezhnikovMiroshkin - Schoolmaster
• ChukamaryevThe butcher
• Ivan YudinKomsomolets
• E. SuharevaWitch
• G. MatveiPriest
• Lev IvanovStudent (uncredited)
• Mikhail GomorovCast
• Vyacheslav GomolyakaCast