The General Line

Also known as The Old and the New (Staroye i Novoye), 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.

Discover

M. Ivanin

Marfa's son

Konstantin Vasilyev

Tractor Driver

Vasili Buzenkov

Secretary of the milk cooperative

Nejnikov

Miroshkin - Schoolmaster

Chukamaryev

The butcher

Ivan Yudin

Komsomolets

G. Matvei

Priest

Lev Ivanov

Student (uncredited)

Art

Vasili Kovrigin

Art Direction

A. Burov

Art Direction

Vasiliy Rakhals

Production Design

Camera

Eduard Tisse

Director of Photography

Directing

Mikhail Gomorov

Assistant Director

Maksim Shtraukh

Assistant Director

Writing

Sergei Eisenstein

Scenario Writer

Art

Vasili Kovrigin

Art Direction

A. Burov

Art Direction

Vasiliy Rakhals

Production Design

Camera

Eduard Tisse

Director of Photography

Directing

Mikhail Gomorov

Assistant Director

Maksim Shtraukh

Assistant Director

Writing

Sergei Eisenstein

Scenario Writer