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OLD AND NEW

A film in six parts. A Sovkino production.

"We must transform our country...

...through the industrialization of agriculture" - Lenin.

Written and directed by S. Eisenstein and G. Alexandrov

Director of photography: E. Tisse.

Assistant directors: M. S. Gomorov and M. M. Shtraukh.

Architect: A. K. Burov. Sets: K. Ovrigin and V. Rakhals.

Collective Farm Tractors "The Giant"

Brutality.

Patriarchy.

Hopelessly backwards.

Millions of households of peasants were abandoned...

...as a legacy...

...of the old regime.

Even in our time...

...they still exist, in backwaters.

When two brothers go their separate ways...

...their property is divided in two.

Let's break it all.

The land is split into pieces.

Split.

Pushing farms and households into poverty.

One of many.

Marfa Lapkina.

Inventory: 1. Horses: none.

2. Cows: one. 3. Iron Ploughs: none.

4. Wooden Ploughs, one. 5. Rippers: none.

And outside...

...it's springtime.

Spring peasants.

The more affluent have begun to plough.

Life is hard without a horse.

You have to beg to get one.

No way.

Summer.

Still horseless!

No horse.

Desperation.

No horse!

No!

No!

No!

We...

...we can not...

We cannot live like this!

We cannot live apart!

We must unite!

Stupid!

Join?

The executive committee...

...the Bolshevik Party...

...and the Communist Youth Union...

...propose a solution...

...to organize a collective farm.

So they want even more taxes?

I'm walking behind my last cow!

Soviet trickery!

The local agriculturalist.

Comrade peasants!

We cannot continue living the old way!

Who is in favor of a Collective Farm?

Declare the collective farm...

...officially inaugurated.

This was the beginning of the Collective Farm

"in the style of the October Revolution"

But the ghost of backwardness doesn't disappear.

Drought.

There was nothing...

...but a single cloud.

Lies?

Lies?

The same old suspicion.

This machine...

...will allow us...

...to make butter.

Lies or benefits?

Lies...?

...or...

...benefits?

It's thickening!

Or...

This...?

It's thick!

Thick!

And...

the number...

...of cooperatives grows.

Congratulations!

Old habits have been uprooted.

"The past has been defeated, but it has not been eliminated." - Lenin.

Stop distributing the cooperative's money!

You'll waste it!

Return the money!

You want the money..

to spend it all on drink!

You didn't think to buy a bull first?

You don't want to improve the breed?

This money will buy the bull!

Maybe you think this is just a dream?

But it is not.

This is...

...a collective farm.

The collective farm buying its first prize bull.

He's called Fomka.

"Fomka".

From the palace...

...of industry...

...from a large factory.

The workers spend their holidays...

...building...

...a people.

Working with the local section of the Communist Youth Union...

...guided by the Executive Director.

The farm workers...

...were building a barn.

Their companions at the factory...

...were constructing the winnower..

Your farm could produce more!

We have to work the land with a tractor.

Should have come long ago!

Old opponents.

Why do we need a tractor?

I already am a machine!

Look at these arms!

Over time they have learned to work together.

The best grain is chosen to plant.

Wedding preparations.

Next!

Next!

The Bride!

Next!

The Bride!

The Bride!

The Bride!

The Bride!

The Bride!

The groom.

Summer's labor is compensated in Winter

Zharov...

...boasted strength.

Hey, Zharov!

I'll catch up!

Draw!

Mowing the grass.

The spears.

The piles.

The machine...

...has beaten us both.

The Machine!

Little machine!

Autumn approaches.

Time to harvest.

I wish we had a machine!

In answer to your petition, our response is as follows...

The tractor can be delivered to the cooperative immediately...

...but only upon your completion of the necessary preparations

...along with the appropriate financial institutions.

The institutions had no hurry.

We cannot grant the loan before the harvest is collected.

In relation to this issue, we suggest that you...

...make contact with the relevant departments.

Danish feed trough.

Secretary.

Harvest.

Women work hard...

...reaping the harvest with their own hands.

Secretary.

Down with political verbiage!

"The Fight Against Bureaucracy"

Marfa went to town as delegate...

...to request a tractor.

More than sixty kilometers.

And then...

...further, more than two hundred.

Around the city...

...for help from the factory workers.

We cannot buy the tractor.

The cooperative was feeding Fomka.

And Fomka fed the people.

But then...

...the "kulaks" decided. [kulak: affluent farmer]

Their lackeys executed the plan.

Provider...

...Farmer...

...Credit...

...and supplier...

...for machines.

Procredagrimach.

NO ENTRY

Comply...

...with the general line!

Sign!

P

K

И

PKИ

Here is the order!

This order will get you the tractor.

Thanks to the workers!

COOPERATIVE AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT

Village witches...

He died.

We have a tractor!

We have one!

Fomka is dead...

But...

...you're alive

Alive.

And also alive...

...our cooperative breeding cattle!

Finally...

STRENGTHEN THE LINK WITH THE PEOPLE

Workers Speech.

And the hero of the day is...

TEA HOUSE

This'll show them how strong we are!

Meanwhile...

To communal work!

More iron...

More steel...

More Machinery!!

March for land.

Steel Legions.

Arrive!

Forward!

Towards Socialism!

THE END