The Magic Beam (1963)

Director: Leonid Makhnach

“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.

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)