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The Magic Beam

The Magic Beam

1963 1h 20mDocumentary

“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.

Synopsis

“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.

Behind it

Leonid MakhnachLeonid MakhnachDirectorIosif PoselskyIosif PoselskyDirectorRoman KarmenRoman KarmenDirectorVasily KatanyanVasily KatanyanDirectorAleksandr NovogrudskyWriterVladimir TsitronCinematography

Cast

Vladimir LeninVladimir LeninSelf (archive footage)
Sergei EisensteinSergei EisensteinSelf (archive footage)
Eduard TisseEduard TisseSelf (archive footage)
Boris BabochkinBoris BabochkinSelf (archive footage)
Sergey VasilevSergey VasilevSelf (archive footage)
Georgi VasilyevGeorgi VasilyevSelf (archive footage)
Ilya TraubergIlya TraubergSelf (archive footage)
Grigori KozintsevGrigori KozintsevSelf (archive footage)
Vsevolod PudovkinVsevolod PudovkinSelf (archive footage)
Fridrikh ErmlerFridrikh ErmlerSelf (archive footage)
Maxim GorkyMaxim GorkySelf (archive footage)
Yuli RaizmanYuli RaizmanSelf (archive footage)
Dmitri ShostakovichDmitri ShostakovichSelf (archive footage)
Isaak DunayevskyIsaak DunayevskySelf (archive footage)
Grigori AleksandrovGrigori AleksandrovSelf (archive footage)
Dziga VertovDziga VertovSelf (archive footage)
Elizaveta SvilovaElizaveta SvilovaSelf (archive footage)
Ilya KopalinIlya KopalinSelf (archive footage)

Director

Leonid Makhnach, Iosif Poselsky, Roman Karmen, Vasily Katanyan

Writers

Roman Karmen, Aleksandr Novogrudsky

Release date

1 Nov 1963

Runtime

1h 20m

Studio

Central Studio of Documentary Films

Language

Russian

Country

Soviet Union

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