The General Line

Also known as The Old and the New, 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 AleksandrovWriter
• Grigori AleksandrovDirector

• 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