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The Magic Beam

Leonid Makhnach

1963 • 1h 20m

“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.

The Magic Beam

Cast

Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir LeninSelf (archive footage)

Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei EisensteinSelf (archive footage)

Eduard Tisse

Eduard TisseSelf (archive footage)

Boris Babochkin

Boris BabochkinSelf (archive footage)

Sergey Vasilev

Sergey VasilevSelf (archive footage)

Georgi Vasilyev

Georgi VasilyevSelf (archive footage)

Ilya Trauberg

Ilya TraubergSelf (archive footage)

Grigori Kozintsev

Grigori KozintsevSelf (archive footage)

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Vsevolod PudovkinSelf (archive footage)

Fridrikh Ermler

Fridrikh ErmlerSelf (archive footage)

Maxim Gorky

Maxim GorkySelf (archive footage)

Yuli Raizman

Yuli RaizmanSelf (archive footage)

Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri ShostakovichSelf (archive footage)

Isaak Dunayevsky

Isaak DunayevskySelf (archive footage)

Grigori Aleksandrov

Grigori AleksandrovSelf (archive footage)

Crew

Leonid Makhnach

Leonid MakhnachDirector

Roman Karmen

Roman KarmenWriter

Leonid Kotlyarenko

Leonid KotlyarenkoCamera Operator

Igor Bgantsev

Igor BgantsevCamera Operator

Iosif Poselsky

Iosif PoselskyDirector

Vasily Katanyan

Vasily KatanyanDirector

Valentina Georgievskaya

Valentina GeorgievskayaSound

Marina Babak

Marina BabakAssistant Director