The General Line

1929 film by Sergei Eisenstein

Movie Film Q2581338

The General Line — Sergei Eisenstein · Public Domain · Wikimedia

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Instance of: film
Director: Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov^[2]^[3]
Genre: silent film, drama film^[6]^[7]
Publication date: 1929^[16]
Screenwriter: Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov^[4]^[5]
Producer: State Committee for Cinematography^[10]
Duration: +121^[18]
Aspect ratio (W:H): 4:3^[19]
CNC film rating (France): no age restriction^[21]
Cast member: Marfa Lapkina, Maxim Strauch^[8]^[9]
Color: black-and-white^[14]
Country of origin: Soviet Union^[15]
Director of photography: Eduard Tisse^[12]
Original language of film or TV show: Russian^[13]
Production company: Sovkino^[11]
Production designer: Andrey Burov^[20]
Title: Старое и новое^[17]

🏷️ Also known as

en Old and New en The General Line en The Old and the New en General Line da Gammelt og nyt (Generallinjen) de Der Kampf um die Erde de Das Alte und das Neue de Die Generallinie el Το παλιό και το νέο el Γενική γραμμή el Η γενική γραμμή es La linea general es La línea general fr Ligne générale fr La Ligne générale it La linea generale it Linea generale ja 全線 nl De generale lijn pl Stare i nowe

🔖 Identifiers · 48

VIAF cluster ID: 225393610
AllMovie title ID: v19352
AlloCiné film ID: 2341
Apple TV movie ID: umc.cmc.4qs44trmcn2jmye6e5kt9cn5x
BFI Films, TV and people ID (archived): 4ce2b6b735054
Cine.gr film ID (archived): 712626
CineMagia title ID: 2212303
Cinema Context ID: F003767
Cinema.de ID: 1319832
DNF film ID: 119282, 20646
EIDR content ID: 10.5240/815F-A0B5-F0F2-9F54-7A17-2
ElFilm film ID: 20422

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Elonet movie ID: 126755
Exploitation mark number: 39608
Fandango video ID: 1329163
FandangoNow ID (deprecated scheme): MMV901E74F8397F62CD06988CB2EBEF8C1BA
Fernsehserien.de ID: filme/die-generallinie
FilmAffinity film ID: 237704
FilmPolski ID: 22557
FilmVandaag ID: film/21061
Filmová databáze film ID: 90387
Filmweb.pl film ID: 96368
Freebase ID: /m/02w52qf
IMDb ID: tt0020451
ISAN: 0000-0003-A596-0000-I-0000-0000-K
Il cinema ritrovato film ID: staroe-i-novoe-2, staroe-i-novoe
Internet Archive ID: Eisenstein-TheGeneralLine, TheGeneralLineeng
Kanopy ID: 244037
Kino-teatr.ru film ID: 9255
Kinobox film ID: 253957
Kinopoisk film ID: 43980
LUMIERE film ID: 244471
LdiF ID: 42218
Letterboxd film ID: the-general-line
MovieLens movie ID: 200934
MovieMeter film ID: 13681
Moviepilot.de film ID: die-generallinie
OFDb film ID: 29398
OMDb film ID: 65148
Plex media key: 5d776d0651dd69001fe3f6ba
Rotten Tomatoes ID: m/585856898
Russiancinema.ru film ID: 6273
Swedish Film Database ID: 10024
TMDB movie ID: 110741
TheTVDB movie ID: 79983
Trakt.tv ID: movies/the-general-line-1929
Trakt.tv film ID: 78082
ČSFD film ID: 32385

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Director 2

Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov

Genre 2

silent film, drama film

Screenwriter 2

Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov

Aspect ratio (W:H) 1

4:3

Cast member 1

Maxim Strauch

Color 1

black-and-white

Country of origin 1

Soviet Union

Created notable works 1

Sergei Eisenstein

Director of photography 1

Eduard Tisse

Instance of 1

film

Original language of film or TV show 1

Russian

Producer 1

State Committee for Cinematography

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Summary

The General Line is a film^[1].

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Direct Wikidata claims

[2] ↑ The General Line — director (P57): Sergei Eisenstein. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ The General Line — director (P57): Grigori Aleksandrov. Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ The General Line — screenwriter (P58): Sergei Eisenstein. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ The General Line — screenwriter (P58): Grigori Aleksandrov. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ The General Line — genre (P136): silent film. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ The General Line — genre (P136): drama film. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ The General Line — cast member (P161): Marfa Lapkina. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ The General Line — cast member (P161): Maxim Strauch. Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ The General Line — producer (P162): State Committee for Cinematography. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ The General Line — production company (P272): Sovkino. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ The General Line — director of photography (P344): Eduard Tisse. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ The General Line — original language of film or TV show (P364): Russian. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ The General Line — color (P462): black-and-white. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ The General Line — country of origin (P495): Soviet Union. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ The General Line — publication date (P577): 1929. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ The General Line — title (P1476): Старое и новое. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ The General Line — duration (P2047): 121 minutes. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ The General Line — aspect ratio (W:H) (P2061): 4:3. wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ The General Line — production designer (P2554): Andrey Burov. wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ The General Line — CNC film rating (France) (P2758): no age restriction. cnc.fr. Retrieved 2023-02-03. cnc.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ The General Line is an instance of film (Q11424) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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11w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Filmová databáze film ID → 90387

Il cinema ritrovato film ID → staroe-i-novoe-2, staroe-i-novoe

"Created claim: Filmová databáze film ID: 90387, batch #269267"
19w ago · Rémi sim · 2026-06-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Il cinema ritrovato film ID → staroe-i-novoe-2, staroe-i-novoe

"Created claim: Il cinema ritrovato film ID: staroe-i-novoe-2, Matched to STAROE I NOVOE (#295967561) in Il cine…"
19w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Production designer → Andrey Burov

MovieLens movie ID → 200934

Producer → State Committee for Cinematography

Publication date → 1929

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