The Magic Beam

“The Magic Beam” is a film essay woven together from newsreels and documentary material from different decades, fragments of hundreds of non-fiction and fiction Soviet films of the 1910s-1960s.

• Leonid MakhnachDirector
• Roman KarmenWriter
• Aleksandr NovogrudskyWriter
• Iosif PoselskyDirector
• Roman KarmenDirector
• Vasily KatanyanDirector

• Vladimir LeninSelf (archive footage)
• Sergei EisensteinSelf (archive footage)
• Eduard TisseSelf (archive footage)
• Boris BabochkinSelf (archive footage)
• Sergey VasilevSelf (archive footage)
• Georgi VasilyevSelf (archive footage)
• Ilya TraubergSelf (archive footage)
• Grigori KozintsevSelf (archive footage)
• Vsevolod PudovkinSelf (archive footage)
• Fridrikh ErmlerSelf (archive footage)
• Maxim GorkySelf (archive footage)
• Yuli RaizmanSelf (archive footage)