Die Generallinie

The story of a Russian village whose peasants, after initial difficulties, organize themselves - under the guidance of the party - into a common form of production. Already during the shooting, Sergej M. Eisenstein came into conflict with the party, which demanded changes in terms of content and concept. So the farmers' cooperative became a collective, numerous scenes had to be reshot, the film was renamed and edited. Eisenstein himself was not aware of the version shown in the cinema, as he was already in Western Europe at the time of the premiere. The Russian film historian Naum Klejman has reconstructed the original version according to Eisenstein's editing lists, which emphasizes the visual expressiveness of the symbolic scenes and the experimental character of the film. The music is by Taras Bujevski and was recorded in 1997.

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