Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov's silent epic about rural
collectivization — also known as Old and New (Staroye i novoye).
Marfa Lapkina, a real peasant, plays Marfa, a poor farmer who leads
her village in forming a collective and is rewarded with the arrival
of a tractor, a moment Eisenstein turns into one of the most famous
montage sequences in silent cinema. Made for Sovkino on the eve of
Stalin's forced collectivization campaign. The film is in the public
domain.
Drama
