Old and New / General Line (1929) movie

100.000.000 peasants - illiterate, poor, hungry. There comes a day when one woman decides that she can live old life no longer. Using ways of new Soviet state and industrial progress she changes life and labor of her village. Old and New / General Line (1929) movie Genre: Drama Production Co: Sovkino Directed by Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein Writing Credits: Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein Cinematography by Eduard Tisse Cast: Marfa Lapkina as Marfa M. Ivanin as Marfa's son Konstantin Vasilyev as Tractor Driver Vasili Buzenkov as Secretary of the milk cooperative Nejnikov as Miroshkin - Schoolmaster Chukamaryev as The butcher Ivan Yudin as Komsomolets E. Suhareva as Witch G. Matvei as Priest Efimkin Efimkin as Peasant Vyacheslav Gomolyaka Mikhail Gomorov as Peasant Hurtin as Peasant M. Palej as Peasant Maksim Shtraukh as Peasant Tshukhmarev