Film

The General Line

6.419292h 5mDrama

Director: Sergei Eisenstein
Year: 1929

100.000.000 peasants – illiterate, poor, hungry. There comes a day when one woman decides that she can live the old life no longer. Using ways of new Soviet state and industrial progress, she changes the lives and labours of her village.

Top cast

Marfa Lapkina

Marfa

M. Ivanin

Marfa's son

Konstantin Vasilyev

Tractor Driver

Vasili Buzenkov

Secretary of the milk cooperative

Nezhnikov

Miroshkin - Schoolmaster

Chukamaryev

The butcher

Ivan Yudin

Komsomolets

E. Suhareva

Witch

G. Matvei

Priest

Lev Ivanov

Student (uncredited)

Mikhail Gomorov

Vyacheslav Gomolyaka

Directed by

Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov

Written by

Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein