The Magic Beam

  • Documentary
11/1/1963
80

Storyline

“The Magic Beam” is a film essay woven together from newsreels and documentary material from different decades, fragments of hundreds of non-fiction and fiction Soviet films of the 1910s-1960s.

Directors:
Leonid Makhnach
Iosif Poselsky
Roman Karmen
Vasily Katanyan
Writers:
Roman Karmen
Aleksandr Novogrudsky

      Cast

      • Vladimir Lenin
        Self (archive footage)
      • Sergei Eisenstein
        Self (archive footage)
      • Eduard Tisse
        Self (archive footage)
      • Boris Babochkin
        Self (archive footage)
      • Sergey Vasilev
        Self (archive footage)
      • Georgi Vasilyev
        Self (archive footage)
      • Ilya Trauberg
        Self (archive footage)
      • Grigori Kozintsev
        Self (archive footage)
      • Vsevolod Pudovkin
        Self (archive footage)
      • Fridrikh Ermler
        Self (archive footage)
      • Maxim Gorky
        Self (archive footage)
      • Yuli Raizman
        Self (archive footage)
      • Dmitri Shostakovich
        Self (archive footage)
      • Isaak Dunayevsky
        Self (archive footage)
      • Grigori Aleksandrov
        Self (archive footage)
      • Dziga Vertov
        Self (archive footage)
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