The General Line [Staroye i novoye]


Directed By: Grigoriy Aleksandrov

January 21, 1929 / Portuguese / 121 mins

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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IMDB Movie Page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020451

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Screened Semesters:

  • 1991 Winter

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