The General Line

★★★★★

Original title: Staroye i novoye · Turkish title: Eski ve Yeni

1929 · 2 h 1 min

Directed by Sergei Eisenstein

Drama

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Cast

Marfa Lapkina

Plot

A peasant woman persuades her village to form a farming cooperative, and the film celebrates modern machinery and collective farming.

Sinekatalog’s take

Sergei Eisenstein's silent film follows a peasant woman persuading her village to form a collective and embrace modern machinery. Visually bold and propagandistic, with a famous cream separator sequence, it is an exuberant if uneven Soviet experiment.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.1 / 10 (1,901 votes)
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