The Magic Beam (1963)

“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.
- Released
- 1963-11-01
- Genres
- Documentary
- Runtime
- 80 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Leonid Makhnach, Iosif Poselsky, Roman Karmen, Vasily Katanyan
Cast
- Vladimir Lenin as Self (archive footage)
- Sergei Eisenstein as Self (archive footage)
- Eduard Tisse as Self (archive footage)
- Boris Babochkin as Self (archive footage)
- Sergey Vasilev as Self (archive footage)
- Georgi Vasilyev as Self (archive footage)
- Ilya Trauberg as Self (archive footage)
- Grigori Kozintsev as Self (archive footage)
- Vsevolod Pudovkin as Self (archive footage)
- Fridrikh Ermler as Self (archive footage)
- Maxim Gorky as Self (archive footage)
- Yuli Raizman as Self (archive footage)
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