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.
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
Directing
Vyacheslav Gomolyaka
Acting
My Friend Ivan Lapshin
My Neighbor Adolf
TalhotBlond
Dear Comrades!
Girl in the Box
Burnt by the Sun
The Parts You Lose
Eleanor the Great
Hardball
The Truth About Emanuel