RUSSIA · 1929

The General Line

Sergei Eisenstein
Soviet Poetic Cinema collectivization industrialization agrarian reform soviet ideology modernization
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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.

Year1929
CountryRussia
DirectorSergei Eisenstein
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