The Magic Beam Cast and Crew

The Magic Beam

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.

Release Date: Friday, November 1 1963
61 years ago

Genres: Documentary

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Cast

Vladimir Lenin. Vladimir Lenin would have been no older than 53 in The Magic Beam as 'Self (archive footage)'.

Birthday: Thu, Apr 21 1870 –
Died: Mon, Jan 21 1924

Sergei Eisenstein. Sergei Eisenstein would have been no older than 50 in The Magic Beam as 'Self (archive footage)'.

Birthday: Sun, Jan 23 1898 –
Died: Wed, Feb 11 1948

Eduard Tisse. Eduard Tisse would have been no older than 64 in The Magic Beam as 'Self (archive footage)'.

Birthday: Thu, Apr 01 1897 –
Died: Sat, Nov 18 1961

Boris Babochkin. Boris Babochkin was 59 in The Magic Beam as 'Self (archive footage)'.

Birthday: Sun, Jan 17 1904 –
Died: Thu, Jul 17 1975

Sergey Vasilev. Sergey Vasilev would have been no older than 59 in The Magic Beam as 'Self (archive footage)'.

Birthday: Sun, Nov 04 1900 –
Died: Wed, Dec 16 1959

Georgi Vasilyev. Georgi Vasilyev would have been no older than 46 in The Magic Beam as 'Self (archive footage)'.

Birthday: Sat, Nov 25 1899 –
Died: Tue, Jun 18 1946

Ilya Trauberg. Ilya Trauberg would have been no older than 43 in The Magic Beam as 'Self (archive footage)'.

Birthday: Sun, Dec 03 1905 –
Died: Sat, Dec 18 1948

Grigori Kozintsev. Grigori Kozintsev was 58 in The Magic Beam as 'Self (archive footage)'.

Birthday: Wed, Mar 22 1905 –
Died: Fri, May 11 1973

Vsevolod Pudovkin. Vsevolod Pudovkin would have been no older than 60 in The Magic Beam as 'Self (archive footage)'.

Birthday: Thu, Feb 16 1893 –
Died: Tue, Jun 30 1953

Fridrikh Ermler. Fridrikh Ermler was 65 in The Magic Beam as 'Self (archive footage)'.

Birthday: Fri, May 13 1898 –
Died: Wed, Jul 12 1967

Maxim Gorky. Maxim Gorky would have been no older than 67 in The Magic Beam as 'Self (archive footage)'.

Birthday: Sun, Mar 28 1869 –
Died: Thu, Jun 18 1936

Yuli Raizman. Yuli Raizman was 59 in The Magic Beam as 'Self (archive footage)'.

Birthday: Wed, Dec 02 1903 –
Died: Sun, Dec 11 1994

Dmitri Shostakovich. Dmitri Shostakovich was 57 in The Magic Beam as 'Self (archive footage)'.

Birthday: Tue, Sep 25 1906 –
Died: Sat, Aug 09 1975

Isaak Dunayevsky. Isaak Dunayevsky would have been no older than 55 in The Magic Beam as 'Self (archive footage)'.

Birthday: Tue, Jan 30 1900 –
Died: Mon, Jul 25 1955

Grigori Aleksandrov. Grigori Aleksandrov was 60 in The Magic Beam as 'Self (archive footage)'.

Birthday: Thu, Jan 22 1903 –
Died: Fri, Dec 16 1983

Dziga Vertov. Dziga Vertov would have been no older than 58 in The Magic Beam as 'Self (archive footage)'.

Birthday: Fri, Jan 03 1896 –
Died: Thu, Feb 11 1954

Elizaveta Svilova. Elizaveta Svilova was 63 in The Magic Beam as 'Self (archive footage)'.

Birthday: Wed, Sep 05 1900 –
Died: Tue, Nov 11 1975

Ilya Kopalin. Ilya Kopalin was 63 in The Magic Beam as 'Self (archive footage)'.

Birthday: Thu, Aug 02 1900 –
Died: Sat, Jun 12 1976

Arsha Ovanesova. Arsha Ovanesova was 56 in The Magic Beam as 'Self (archive footage)'.

Birthday: Sun, Dec 23 1906 –
Died: Sun, May 06 1990

Samuil Bubrik. Samuil Bubrik was 64 in The Magic Beam as 'Self (archive footage)'.

Birthday: Thu, Jun 22 1899 –
Died: Sat, Oct 16 1965

Crew

Leonid Makhnach. Leonid Makhnach was 30 in The Magic Beam as 'Director'

Birthday: Sun, Oct 08 1933 –
Died: Fri, Sep 26 2014

Iosif Poselsky. Iosif Poselsky was 63 in The Magic Beam as 'Director'

Birthday: Sat, Dec 23 1899 –
Died: Thu, Feb 19 1970

Vasily Katanyan. Vasily Katanyan was 39 in The Magic Beam as 'Director'

Birthday: Thu, Feb 21 1924 –
Died: Fri, Apr 30 1999

Roman Karmen. Roman Karmen was 56 in The Magic Beam as 'Writer, Director'

Birthday: Thu, Nov 29 1906 –
Died: Sun, Apr 29 1979

Vladimir Tsitron. Vladimir Tsitron was >> in The Magic Beam as 'Director of Photography'

Birthday: Unknown Birthday

Marina Babak. Marina Babak was 34 in The Magic Beam as 'Assistant Director'

Birthday: Sat, Mar 16 1929

Aleksandr Novogrudsky. Aleksandr Novogrudsky was 51 in The Magic Beam as 'Writer'

Birthday: Sun, Nov 12 1911 –
Died: Tue, Feb 27 1996

Leonid Kotlyarenko. Leonid Kotlyarenko was 46 in The Magic Beam as 'Camera Operator'

Birthday: Tue, Jun 12 1917 –
Died: Wed, May 21 1969

Valentina Georgievskaya. Valentina Georgievskaya was 36 in The Magic Beam as 'Sound'

Birthday: Mon, Mar 07 1927 –
Died: Sun, Jan 22 2023

Igor Bgantsev. Igor Bgantsev was 31 in The Magic Beam as 'Camera Operator'

Birthday: Tue, Aug 16 1932 –
Died: Sun, Oct 15 2017