The Magic Beam
November 1, 1963
1h 20m
Overview
“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.
Directed by
Leonid Makhnach, Iosif Poselsky, Vasily Katanyan, Roman Karmen
Where to watch
In United States
Not available to stream, rent, or buy in United States right now.
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
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