The General Line

IMDb link: 0020451
IMDb rating: 7.2 (1,857 votes)
Genres: Drama
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Cast: Marfa Lapkina, M. Ivanin, Konstantin Vasilyev, Vasili Buzenkov and others

Release date: 2 May 1930
Release year: 1929
Runtime: 121 minutes
Country: Soviet Union
Keywords: peasant, soviet citizen, modernization, rural setting, communist propaganda, propaganda, communism, collectivization

Plot:

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.

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