1963 · 80 min · Directed by 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.
Vladimir Lenin
Self (archive footage)
Sergei Eisenstein
Eduard Tisse
Boris Babochkin
Sergey Vasilev
Georgi Vasilyev
Ilya Trauberg
Grigori Kozintsev
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Fridrikh Ermler
Maxim Gorky
Yuli Raizman
Dmitri Shostakovich
Isaak Dunayevsky
Grigori Aleksandrov
Dziga Vertov
Elizaveta Svilova
Ilya Kopalin
Arsha Ovanesova
Samuil Bubrik
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