The Magic Beam
1963, Russian. Directed by Leonid Makhnach & Iosif Poselsky & Roman Karmen & Vasily Katanyan.
“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.
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
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Cast & crew
- Leonid MakhnachDirector
- Iosif PoselskyDirector
- Roman KarmenDirector
- Vasily KatanyanDirector
- Vladimir LeninSelf (archive footage)
- Sergei EisensteinSelf (archive footage)
- Eduard TisseSelf (archive footage)
- Boris BabochkinSelf (archive footage)
- Sergey VasilevSelf (archive footage)
- Georgi VasilyevSelf (archive footage)
- Ilya TraubergSelf (archive footage)
- Grigori KozintsevSelf (archive footage)
- Vsevolod PudovkinSelf (archive footage)
- Fridrikh ErmlerSelf (archive footage)
- Maxim GorkySelf (archive footage)
- Yuli RaizmanSelf (archive footage)
Details
- Released
- 1 November 1963
- Original title
- Волшебный луч
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Roman Karmen, Aleksandr Novogrudsky
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The Magic Beam runs 80 minutes (1h 20m).
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The Magic Beam isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 November 1963. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Magic Beam?
The Magic Beam (1963) was directed by Leonid Makhnach and Iosif Poselsky and Roman Karmen and Vasily Katanyan and stars Vladimir Lenin, Sergei Eisenstein, Eduard Tisse.