The Magic Beam

Genre: DocumentaryRuntime: 1h 20mRelease: 1st November, 1963

Directors: Leonid Makhnach, Iosif Poselsky, Vasily Katanyan, Roman KarmenLanguages: RussianCountry: Soviet Union

Plot: “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.

Company: Central Studio of Documentary Films

Cast:

Vladimir Lenin

Self (archive footage)

Sergei Eisenstein

The Magic Beam

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)