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Also known as The Old and the New, 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.
Good for
- Friends night
- Teens
- Thought-provoking
Skip it if
- You want fast pacing
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Audiences 71GoodWatch 68
IMDb7.1
Running time
2 h 5 min
A typical length for dramas, +16 min on the typical 109
typical 109125Half of all dramas run 98–125 min.
Reach
Streams in 139 countries
+129Released
1929
September 25, 1929
97 years ago
Genre
DramaLanguage
Russian
Original language
Made in
Russia
Directing · 4
- Sergei Eisenstein Director, Writer
- Grigori Aleksandrov Director, Writer
- Mikhail Gomorov Assistant Director
- Maksim Shtraukh Assistant Director
Camera · 1
- Eduard Tisse Director of Photography
Art · 3
- Vasiliy Rakhals Production Design
- Vasiliy Kovrigin Art Direction
- A. Burov Art Direction
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