The Magic Beam

“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.

Documentary

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))

Maxim Gorky

(Self (archive footage))

Yuli Raizman

(Self (archive footage))

Dmitri Shostakovich

(Self (archive footage))

Isaak Dunayevsky

(Self (archive footage))

Grigori Aleksandrov

(Self (archive footage))

Dziga Vertov

(Self (archive footage))

Elizaveta Svilova

(Self (archive footage))

Ilya Kopalin

(Self (archive footage))

Arsha Ovanesova

(Self (archive footage))

Samuil Bubrik

(Self (archive footage))