The General Line(Старое и новое)
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Soviet Union · 1929
2h 1m
Director Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Starring Marfa Lapkina, M. Ivanin, Konstantin Vasilyev, Vasili Buzenkov
Genre Drama
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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.
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