General Information

Original Title

Staroe i novoe : Generalnaya liniya

Author/Creator

Eisenstein, Sergei, director.

Subtitles

English

Published

Soviet Union : Amkino ; Sovkino, 1929.

Physical Description

VHS (121 min.)

Contents/Summary

Summary

The project for this movie was first initiated in 1927, when Sergei Eisenstein created The General Line (Generalnaia linia) to celebrate the campaign for collectivization in the Soviet Union. Hoping to reach a wide audience, the director forsook his usual practice of emphasizing groups by concentrating on a single rural heroine. Eisenstein briefly abandoned this project to film October, in honor of the 10th anniversary of the Revolution. By the time he was able to return to General Line, the Soviet Union was going through the first weaves of Stalinist purges. The intial version of the movie was accussed of having a Trotkist approach. As a result, the film was hastily re-edited and sent out in 1929 under a new title, The Old and the New (Staroe i novoe). In later years, archivists restored The General Line to an approximation of Eisenstein's original concept.

Bibliographic Information

Title Translation

The General Line

Note

Duration: 02:01:00

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
VHS	OSA Film Library	FL Record 0873	Available	-	-