The General Line

Name: The General Line
Director: Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Released: 1929
Duration: 125 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Marfa Lapkina, M. Ivanin, Konstantin Vasilyev, Vasili Buzenkov, Nejnikov

1929 · 125 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 1,774 VOTES · DIR. Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov

Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline - 222 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME - EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:00 THE OLD AND THE NEW (THE GENERAL LINE)

00:00:32 Sets: KOVRIGUINE and RAKHALS

00:00:59 one hundred MILLIONS

00:01:54 Still nowadays...

00:09:31 Horses: None

00:15:46 Summer...

00:20:19 There's no way living like that!

00:22:00 Another trick from the Soviets!

00:31:07 A cloud is passing

00:37:04 ADVANCE?

00:40:05 And the dairy cooperative worked...

00:48:50 I'm going to watch over the money, and we will have that bull!

00:59:33 the workers on vacation

01:01:23 set up a grain sorter.

01:04:49 Preparations for the wedding.

01:12:08 Jarov.

01:17:36 turns the hay over

01:20:58 We can not

01:24:51 Less political chatter!

01:28:06 So

01:33:37 Apply

01:38:22 He is dead...

01:42:40 The sponsors' speech

01:59:53 Marfa...

Cast & Characters

Marfa Lapkina Marfa M. Ivanin Marfa's son Konstantin Vasilyev Tractor Driver Vasili Buzenkov Secretary of the milk cooperative Nejnikov Miroshkin - Schoolmaster Chukamaryev The butcher Ivan Yudin Komsomolets E. Suhareva Witch G. Matvei Priest Efimkin Peasant

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed222

Dialogue density1.8 lines / min

First line00:00:00

Final line01:59:53

Production Record

DirectorSergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov

LanguageRussian

IMDb votes1,774