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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Predicate Object
instanceOf Soviet film
film
silent film
alsoKnownAs Old and New
censorshipStatus subject to Soviet censorship
cinematographyBy Eduard Tisse
countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
depicts collectivization of agriculture
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
political film
propaganda film
hasCastMember Konstantin Vasilyev NERFINISHED
Marfa Lapkina
Mikhail Gomorov
Nina Alexandrovna
hasPosterArtBy Soviet constructivist designers
hasSequence cream separator sequence
tractor sequence
influencedBy Marxist–Leninist ideology
notableFor experimental visual style
montage editing
originalLanguage Russian
partOf Soviet avant-garde cinema
portrays collective farm
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
collective farming
industrialization of agriculture
socialist modernization
titleAfterCensorship Old and New

Referenced by (2)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Sergei Eisenstein
Soviet montage school
notableWork

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