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The Magic Beam poster

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.

Release: 1963-11-01
Runtime: 80 min
Cast
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
Self (archive footage)
Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein
Self (archive footage)
Eduard Tisse
Eduard Tisse
Self (archive footage)
Boris Babochkin
Boris Babochkin
Self (archive footage)
Sergey Vasilev
Sergey Vasilev
Self (archive footage)
Georgi Vasilyev
Georgi Vasilyev
Self (archive footage)
Ilya Trauberg
Ilya Trauberg
Self (archive footage)
Grigori Kozintsev
Grigori Kozintsev
Self (archive footage)
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Self (archive footage)
Fridrikh Ermler
Fridrikh Ermler
Self (archive footage)
Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky
Self (archive footage)
Yuli Raizman
Yuli Raizman
Self (archive footage)
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich
Self (archive footage)
Isaak Dunayevsky
Isaak Dunayevsky
Self (archive footage)
Grigori Aleksandrov
Grigori Aleksandrov
Self (archive footage)
Dziga Vertov
Dziga Vertov
Self (archive footage)
Elizaveta Svilova
Elizaveta Svilova
Self (archive footage)
Ilya Kopalin
Ilya Kopalin
Self (archive footage)