Russia / Nov 01, 1963
The Magic Beam (1963)
Directed by Leonid Makhnach, Iosif Poselsky, Roman Karmen, Vasily Katanyan
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1h 20min
Overall average
5.0/10
Plot
“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.
Main cast
Full cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| 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) |
Genres
Documentary
Technical details
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Original title | Волшебный луч |
| Original language | Pусский (RU) |
| Spoken languages | Pусский |
| Production countries | Soviet Union |
| Status | Released |
| Production companies | Central Studio of Documentary Films |
| Release date | 1 novembre 1963 |
| Writer | Roman Karmen, Aleksandr Novogrudsky |
| Cinematography | Vladimir Tsitron, Leonid Kotlyarenko, Igor Bgantsev |
| Assistant directors | Marina Babak, Leonid Makhnach, Iosif Poselsky, Roman Karmen, Vasily Katanyan |
| Camera operators | Leonid Kotlyarenko, Igor Bgantsev, Vladimir Tsitron |
| Additional photography | Leonid Kotlyarenko, Igor Bgantsev, Vladimir Tsitron |
| Music | Valentina Georgievskaya |
| Sound | Valentina Georgievskaya |
Release dates
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