THE OLD AND THE NEW (THE GENERAL LINE)
Film in 6 parts.
A SOVKINO production.
Script and Direction:
S. M. EISENSTEIN and G. V. ALEXANDROV.
Camera: EDOUARD TISSE.
Assistant directors:
M. S. GOMOROV and M. M. CHTRAOUKH.
Architect: A. K. BOUROV.
Sets: KOVRIGUINE and RAKHALS.
"In some occasions,"
the exemplary organisation
of the local work, even at small scale,
turns out to be more efficient for the people
than a large number of State establishments
with a centralized functioning." V. Lenin.
Not ten, not twenty,
not really
one hundred,
one hundred MILLIONS
of illiterate people,
of retarded people,
of peasants,
of retarded farmers
that have been left in heritage
by the old system!
The precariousness.
The extreme poverty.
Still nowadays...
When two brothers split apart
we share the farm in two.
Sharing means
that the land is divided.
We proceed to the sharing.
That's the way the farms grow poorer and collapse.
One amongst others.
Marfa Lapkina.
Inventory:
Horses: None.
Cows: One.
Plow: None.
Swing plow: 1 Harrow: None.
And outside
it's springtime.
The farmer's springtime.
Without a horse, a disaster.
We have to ask for one.
We are not giving him.
Summer...
And no horse!
No horse!
In despair...
No horse!
There's no way!
There's no way living
like that.
There's no way living like that!
We can't live only for ourselves.
We have to unite our forces.
Woman!
Together!
The Party committee decides to support
the proposition of Lapkina
about the creation of a dairy cooperative...
Our taxes are not enough?
Now you want our last cows!
Another trick from the Soviets!
The local agronomist.
Comrades peasants!
A dairy cooperative would be a great help for you.
Who's for it?
I declare the dairy cooperative
officially started!
Dairy cooperative "The October Way".
The drought.
A cloud is passing
by chance.
Deception?
With the first loan.
A SEPARATOR
that will allow
to make butter.
Deception or advance?
DECEPTION?
Or...
ADVANCE?
It's going to condense!
Or.
NO?!
It has condensed!
CONDENSED!!!
And
the number of cooperative
members increased.
Congratulations.
And the dairy cooperative worked...
With the first profit!
Don't even think of distributing the money of the cooperative!
But it's going to be lost money!
Give back this money!
What will you do with it?
Just drinking!
What about the pedigree bull?
How are we going to set up the bovine cooperative?
I'm going to watch over the money, and we will have that bull!
You think it's a dream?
Absolutely not.
It's a sovkhoz, A state farm!
Name: Fomka.
And so, the dairy cooperative
evolved in a bovine cooperative.
From a temple
of the industry,
from a huge factory
the workers on vacation
came to help for the construction
in the sponsored village.
Its director in the lead,
the kolkhoz
builds a common stable.
The sponsors
set up a grain sorter.
We have to extend the farm.
We have to work the land together, with a tractor.
It's about time!
The old ones balk.
Why a tractor?
I am myself a machine!
Look at my hands!
Progressively, we get used to worked together.
We sorted out the seeds.
Preparations for the wedding.
She's coming!
Here she is!
The bride.
She's coming!
The bride.
THE BRIDE
THE GROOM
Summer supplies the stocks for winter.
Jarov.
The best reaper of the area.
Jarov!
I'm going to catch you.
I'm catching up on you!
The machine
beats both of us...
The machine!
It cuts the grass
turns the hay over
and picks it up.
The autumn.
Time has come to harvest.
If only we could have a machine!
Following your request,
you will find hereafter our answer...
Once overhead as above mentioned has been paid,
the tractor will be delivered to the cooperative...
Everybody expressed such an eagerness...
We can not
grant you a loan
before your fields have been harvested.
We advise you to apply
to the authority concerned.
With our kindest regards...
The harvest.
We've lost plenty of time
in trying to pay back the expenses for the tractor.
Less political chatter!
Fight the bureaucracy.
Marfa goes to town as a delegate
to ask for a tractor.
40 versts...
140 more.
Up to the town to implore the sponsors to help.
We are going to be left without a tractor!
The cooperative fed Fomka
and Fomka fed the cooperative.
So,
the koulaks decided to harm.
And they did.
Service
of Agricultural.
Restocking
and Loan
for Machines.
S. A. R. L. M.
DO NOT ENTER WITHOUT A CONTRIBUTION
Apply
the general line
line
of the R.K.I.!
We have the order!
The order for the tractor!
Thanks to the workers!
COMPANY OF MACHINES
We will use witchcraft...
He is dead...
We have a tractor! It's done!
Fomka is no more...
but
he is still alive!
He is still alive!
ALIVE!
The bovine cooperative exists!
At last.
"Let's tighten up the links with the country."
The sponsors' speech
and the hero of the day.
Let's show what we can do!
Meanwhile, the young communists...
Hurrah for the collective work!
On a collective land!
Together with the industry!
The land.
Hurrah for the land!
Marfa...
That's the way boundaries vanish
between city and country.
THE END