"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
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
as
Vyacheslav Gomolyaka
Sergei Eisenstein
Scenario Writer
Director
Grigori Aleksandrov
Writer
Vasiliy Kovrigin
Art Direction
A. Burov
Assistant Director
Maksim Shtraukh
Eduard Tisse
Director of Photography
Vasiliy Rakhals
Production Design