The General Line

Original title: Старое и новое

Duration: 125 min

Release date: 1929-09-25

IMDB

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.

Drama

Старое и новое

Watch Providers

Amazon Video

Google Play Movies

YouTube

Fandango At Home

Casting arrow_drop_down

Konstantin Vasilyev

Konstantin Vasilyev

as Tractor Driver

Vasili Buzenkov

Vasili Buzenkov

as Secretary of the milk cooperative

as Miroshkin - Schoolmaster

as Student (uncredited)

Mikhail Gomorov

Mikhail Gomorov

Vyacheslav Gomolyaka

Vyacheslav Gomolyaka

arrow_drop_down

Crew arrow_drop_down

Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Eisenstein

Scenario Writer

Grigori Aleksandrov

Grigori Aleksandrov

Grigori Aleksandrov

Grigori Aleksandrov

Vasiliy Kovrigin

Vasiliy Kovrigin

Mikhail Gomorov

Mikhail Gomorov

Assistant Director

Maksim Shtraukh

Maksim Shtraukh

Assistant Director

Director of Photography

Vasiliy Rakhals

Vasiliy Rakhals

Production Design

arrow_drop_down

Recomendation Films

NextFilm 2026