The General Line Movie Review 1929

Eisenstein's classic pro-Soviet semi-documentary about a poor farm woman who persuades her village to form a cooperative. Transgresses its party-line instructional purpose by vivid filmmaking. The director's last silent film.

Distribution

Glenn Video Vistas Ltd., 6024 Canby Ave., Ste. 103, Reseda, CA 91335, Phone: (818)881-8110

Available on VHS
Running time 90 minutes.
Originally from Russian.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Docudrama, Silent Films, Propaganda, Farm Livin', 4 Bones

Cast

Marfa Lapkina

Director

Sergei Eisenstein

Producer

Sovkino Films