Film
The Magic Beam
SU- Director
- Leonid Makhnach
- Year
- 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.
Top 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)
Grigori Aleksandrov
Self (archive footage)
Dziga Vertov
Self (archive footage)
Elizaveta Svilova
Self (archive footage)
Ilya Kopalin
Self (archive footage)
Directed by
Leonid Makhnach, Iosif Poselsky, Roman Karmen, Vasily Katanyan
Written by
Roman Karmen, Aleksandr Novogrudsky