The Magic Beam

Name: The Magic Beam
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1963
Duration: 80 min

1963 · 80 min

Documentary

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“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.

Crew

Director Leonid Makhnach
Director Iosif Poselsky
Director Roman Karmen
Director Vasily Katanyan
Writer Roman Karmen
Writer Aleksandr Novogrudsky
Director of Photography Vladimir Tsitron

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)

Crew

Director — Leonid Makhnach
Director — Iosif Poselsky
Director — Roman Karmen
Director — Vasily Katanyan
Writer — Roman Karmen
Writer — Aleksandr Novogrudsky
Director of Photography — Vladimir Tsitron

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Intermission

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