Documentary · Soviet Union · 1963 · 1h 20m

The Magic Beam

Волшебный луч

Director

Leonid Makhnach Iosif Poselsky Roman Karmen Vasily Katanyan

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) Georgi Vasilyev as Self (archive footage)

Crew

Vladimir Tsitron — Director of Photography Roman Karmen — Writer Aleksandr Novogrudsky — Writer

Synopsis

“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.

Key Collaborators

Leonid Makhnach Director Iosif Poselsky Director Roman Karmen Director Vasily Katanyan Director Vladimir Tsitron Director of Photography Roman Karmen Writer Aleksandr Novogrudsky Writer

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