The Magic Beam 1963

“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.

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The 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)

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