Original subtitles

OLD AND NEW

Film in 6 parts

A SOVKINO production

Script and Direction:

S. M. EISENSTEIN and G. V. ALEKSANDROV

Camera: EDUARD TISSE

Assistant directors:

M. S. GOMOROV and M. M. CHTRAOUKH

Architect: A. K. BOUROV

Sets: V. I. KOVRIGUINE and V. A. RAKHALS

"...On some occasions,

the exemplary organisation

of local work, even on a small scale,

turns out to be more efficient for the State

than a large number of State institutions

under centralized control." V. Lenin

Not ten

not twenty

but

one hundred

one hundred MILLION

illiterate, ignorant,

old-fashioned

peasants,

old-fashioned peasants

left as a legacy

by the old system!

The precariousness

The poverty

And still nowadays in our time

When a brother leaves his brother

The farm is split half-and-half

Half-and-half, thus half-and-half

The land in shreds

The Sharing

So the farms grow poorer and collapse

One among many

Marfa Lapkina

Inventory:

Horses: None

Cows: 1

Plow: None

Swing plow: 1

Harrow: None

And outside

Spring

The peasant's spring

Hopeless without a horse

She has to beg for one

It is not given

Summer

And no horse!

No horse

In despair

No horse!

It's impossible!

Impossible!

IMPOSSIBLE!

like this

to live

It's impossible to live like this!

It's impossible to live seperately.

We must live together

Woman!

Together!

The Party committee decides...

to support Lapkina's proposition

about the creation of a dairy cooperative...

Taxes aren't enough for you!

You want the milk from the last cow!

Another Soviet trick!

The local agriculturist

Comrades Paupers and peasants!

A dairy cooperative would be a great help for you.

Who's for it?

I declare the dairy cooperative

officially started!

Dairy cooperative "The October Way"

Drought.

There it goes...

a cloud, passing by chance

Deception?..

With the first loan

A SEPARATOR

that will give the means

to make butter.

Deception or advance?

DECEPTION?

Or...

ADVANCE

It's going to condense!

Or

NOT?!

It has condensed!!

CONDENSED!!!

And

An increase

of cooperative members

Congratulations

The dairy cooperative worked...

With the first profit!..

Don't dare distribute the money of the cooperative!

The money will be totally wasted!

Give back the money!

What will you do with the money?!

Spend it on drink!

And what about the pedigree bull?

How are we going to set up the bovine cooperative?

I'll watch over the money, and we will have that bull!

Perhaps you think it's a dream?

Nothing of the kind

It's

a sovkhoz (a state farm)

Name - Fomka

And so, the dairy cooperative

evolved into a bovine cooperative.

Out of a palace

of industry

from a huge factory

the workers on holiday

came to help with the construction

in the sponsored village.

With its director in the lead,

the kolkhoz (collective farm)

builds a common cow-shed.

The sponsors

set up a grain sorter.

-We have to extend the farm.

-We have to work the land together, with a tractor.

-It's about time!

The old ones object.

-Why a tractor?!

-I am myself a machine!

-Look at my hands!

Little by little they get used to working together

Sorting out the grain for sowing.

Preparations for the wedding

She's coming!

She's coming!

The bride

She's coming!

The bride

THE BRIDE

THE BRIDE

THE GROOM

A summer day supplies winter food

Jarov

No better reaper in the area

Jarov!

I'm going to catch you

I've caught you!

The machine

beats me and you...

The machine!

It cuts the grass

turns it over

and picks it up

Autumn

The time has come to harvest

If only we had a machine!

In response to your request,

you will find hereafter our answer...

...once the aforementioned overhead has been paid,

the tractor will be delivered to the cooperative immediately...

And they hastened to help...

Obviously the loan

cannot be granted

before the harvest has been gathered

We advise you to apply

to the appropriate authorities

With comradely regards..

Gathering the harvest

Time has been lost

in paying back the expenses for the tractor.

Less political chatter!

On fighting against bureaucracy

Marfa goes to town as a delegate

to get hold of the tractor

40 versts...

And 140 more...

Up to the town to implore the sponsors to help

We'll be left without a tractor!

The cooperative fed Fomka

and Fomka fed the cooperative.

And so

the kulaks made a plan.

Henchmen carried it out.

Service

of Agricultural

Restocking

and Loan

for Machines

SerAgrReLoMac

DO NOT ENTER WITHOUT A CONTRIBUTION

Apply

the general

line

R.

K.

I.

of the R.K.I.

We have the order!

The order for the tractor

Thanks to the workers!

MACHINE COOPERATIVE

We will use witchcraft...

He is dead...

We have a tractor!

We have it!

Fomka is no more...

but

he is alive!

He is alive!

HE LIVES!

The "bovine cooperative" lives!

At last

"Let's tighten up the links with the country"

The sponsors' speech

and the hero of the day

Let's show what we can do!

And meanwhile - the young communists

Hurrah for collective work!

On a collective land!

Together with the industry!

The land

Hurrah!

Hurrah for the land!!!

Marfa

That's how boundaries vanish

between city and country.

THE END