The Magic Beam
(Волшебный луч)
Documentary
1963 1h 20min
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.
Main Casting
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)
Ratings
Technical team
Leonid Makhnach Directing
Iosif Poselsky Directing
Roman Karmen Directing
Vasily Katanyan Directing
Roman Karmen Writing
Aleksandr Novogrudsky Writing
Production
Central Studio of Documentary Films