
“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.
Release Date: 11/1/1963
Runtime: 80 minutes
Languages: Russian
Directors: Leonid Makhnach, Iosif Poselsky, Roman Karmen, Vasily Katanyan
00Companies: Central Studio of Documentary Films
Countries: Soviet Union
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Vladimir Lenin
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Sergei Eisenstein
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Eduard Tisse
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Boris Babochkin
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Sergey Vasilev
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Georgi Vasilyev
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Ilya Trauberg
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Grigori Kozintsev
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Vsevolod Pudovkin
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Fridrikh Ermler
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Maxim Gorky
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Yuli Raizman
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