The General Line (1929)
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.
- Released
- 1929-09-25
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
- TMDB rating
- 6.4/10 from 48 votes
Cast
- Marfa Lapkina as Marfa
- M. Ivanin as Marfa's son
- Konstantin Vasilyev as Tractor Driver
- Vasili Buzenkov as Secretary of the milk cooperative
- Nezhnikov as Miroshkin - Schoolmaster
- Chukamaryev as The butcher
- Ivan Yudin as Komsomolets
- E. Suhareva as Witch
- G. Matvei as Priest
- Lev Ivanov as Student (uncredited)
- Mikhail Gomorov
- Vyacheslav Gomolyaka
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