“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.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Central Studio of Documentary Films
Top Cast
Vladimir Lenin as Self (archive footage)
Sergei Eisenstein as Self (archive footage)
Eduard Tisse as Self (archive footage)
Boris Babochkin as Self (archive footage)
Sergey Vasilev as Self (archive footage)
Top Crew
Leonid Makhnach · Director
Roman Karmen · Director, Writer
Aleksandr Novogrudsky · Writer
Vladimir Tsitron · Cinematographer
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