The General Line
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.
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Cast
12 people
Marfa Lapkina
Marfa
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M. Ivanin
Marfa's son
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Konstantin Vasilyev
Tractor Driver
Vasili Buzenkov
Secretary of the milk cooperative
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Nezhnikov
Miroshkin - Schoolmaster
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Chukamaryev
The butcher
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Ivan Yudin
Komsomolets
Also in
The New Gulliver
Suburban Districts
E. Suhareva
Witch
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G. Matvei
Priest
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Lev Ivanov
Student (uncredited)
Also in
The Miracle Worker
The Captain's Daughter
Mikhail Gomorov
Known for
Battleship Potemkin
Strike
Vyacheslav Gomolyaka
Also in
Happy End
Black Skin
Sergei Eisenstein Director · Grigori Aleksandrov Director Eduard Tisse Cinematographer
First release September 25, 1929 · Produced in Russia, Russia · Languages No dialogue, Russian
Production
Sovkino
Production
Russia · Russia
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Старое и новое
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
No dialogue · Russian
Release dates
Russia · September 25, 1929
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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