Overview
“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.
Cast
- Vladimir Lenin as Self (archive footage)
- Sergei Eisenstein as Self (archive footage)
- Eduard Tisse as Self (archive footage)
- Boris Babochkin as Self (archive footage)
- Sergey Vasilev as Self (archive footage)
- Georgi Vasilyev as Self (archive footage)
- Ilya Trauberg as Self (archive footage)
- Grigori Kozintsev as Self (archive footage)
- Vsevolod Pudovkin as Self (archive footage)
- Fridrikh Ermler as Self (archive footage)