The General Line
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The General Line is a 1929 Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein that depicts the collectivization of agriculture and the transformation of peasant life in the early Soviet Union.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| The General Line canonical | 10 |
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Target entity: The General Line Context triple: [Sergei Eisenstein, notableWork, The General Line]
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Stakhanovite movement
The Stakhanovite movement was a Soviet-era labor campaign that glorified and incentivized exceptionally high worker productivity as a model for socialist industrialization.
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Four Year Plan decree of 1936
The Four Year Plan decree of 1936 was a key Nazi directive issued by Adolf Hitler that launched an aggressive four-year program to prepare Germany’s economy and military for war through rapid rearmament and economic autarky.
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Gosplan
Gosplan was the central Soviet state planning committee responsible for formulating and overseeing the USSR’s national economic plans.
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Five-Year Plans for the National Economy of the Soviet Union
The Five-Year Plans for the National Economy of the Soviet Union were a series of centralized, state-directed economic programs that rapidly industrialized the USSR and transformed its agrarian economy under communist rule.
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Wirtschaftswunder
Wirtschaftswunder refers to the rapid economic recovery and sustained growth of West Germany after World War II, transforming it into one of the world’s leading industrial economies.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: The General Line Target entity description: The General Line is a 1929 Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein that depicts the collectivization of agriculture and the transformation of peasant life in the early Soviet Union.
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A.
Stakhanovite movement
The Stakhanovite movement was a Soviet-era labor campaign that glorified and incentivized exceptionally high worker productivity as a model for socialist industrialization.
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B.
Four Year Plan decree of 1936
The Four Year Plan decree of 1936 was a key Nazi directive issued by Adolf Hitler that launched an aggressive four-year program to prepare Germany’s economy and military for war through rapid rearmament and economic autarky.
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C.
Gosplan
Gosplan was the central Soviet state planning committee responsible for formulating and overseeing the USSR’s national economic plans.
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D.
Five-Year Plans for the National Economy of the Soviet Union
The Five-Year Plans for the National Economy of the Soviet Union were a series of centralized, state-directed economic programs that rapidly industrialized the USSR and transformed its agrarian economy under communist rule.
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E.
Wirtschaftswunder
Wirtschaftswunder refers to the rapid economic recovery and sustained growth of West Germany after World War II, transforming it into one of the world’s leading industrial economies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Soviet film
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film ⓘ silent film ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Old and New ⓘ |
| censorshipStatus | subject to Soviet censorship ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Eduard Tisse ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| depicts |
collectivization of agriculture
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Soviet period ⓘ
surface form:
early Soviet Union
transformation of peasant life ⓘ |
| director | Sergei Eisenstein ⓘ |
| directorStyle | Soviet montage theory ⓘ |
| distributor | Sovkino ⓘ |
| filmEra | late silent era ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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political film ⓘ propaganda film ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Konstantin Vasilyev
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Marfa Lapkina ⓘ Mikhail Gomorov ⓘ Nina Alexandrovna ⓘ |
| hasPosterArtBy | Soviet constructivist designers ⓘ |
| hasSequence |
cream separator sequence
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tractor sequence ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Marxist–Leninist ideology ⓘ |
| notableFor |
experimental visual style
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montage editing ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| partOf | Soviet avant-garde cinema ⓘ |
| portrays |
collective farm
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kulaks ⓘ poor peasants ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Mosfilm ⓘ |
| productionEndYear | 1929 ⓘ |
| productionStartYear | 1926 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1929 ⓘ |
| runningTime | approximately 121 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Sergei Eisenstein ⓘ |
| setting | rural Russia ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 1920s ⓘ |
| sound | silent ⓘ |
| theme |
class struggle in the countryside
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collective farming ⓘ industrialization of agriculture ⓘ socialist modernization ⓘ |
| titleAfterCensorship | Old and New ⓘ |
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