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.
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Cast
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Vladimir Lenin
Self (archive footage)
Also in
Europa: The Last Battle
How to Stage a Coup
Sergei Eisenstein
Self (archive footage)
Known for
Battleship Potemkin
Eduard Tisse
Self (archive footage)
Known for
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
Boris Babochkin
Self (archive footage)
Also in
Chapayev
The Invincible
Sergey Vasilev
Self (archive footage)
Also in
The Palace and the Fortress
Guest
Georgi Vasilyev
Self (archive footage)
Also in
Chapayev
Ilya Trauberg
Self (archive footage)
Grigori Kozintsev
Self (archive footage)
Also in
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat
Petersburg Diary: Kozintsev's Apartment
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Self (archive footage)
Known for
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
Mother
Fridrikh Ermler
Self (archive footage)
Maxim Gorky
Self (archive footage)
Yuli Raizman
Self (archive footage)
Known for
Chess Fever
Roman Karmen Director · Vasily Katanyan Director Iosif Poselsky Director
First release November 1, 1963 · Produced in Russia · Original title Волшебный луч
Production
Central Studio of Documentary Films
Production
Russia
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Languages
Original title
Волшебный луч
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · November 1, 1963
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No release date listed for United States.
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