“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.
Leonid Makhnach
Director
Roman Karmen
Writer, Director
Aleksandr Novogrudsky
Writer
Iosif Poselsky
Director
Vasily Katanyan
Director

Vladimir Lenin
Self (archive footage)

Sergei Eisenstein
Self (archive footage)

Eduard Tisse
Self (archive footage)

Boris Babochkin
Self (archive footage)

Sergey Vasilev
Self (archive footage)

Georgi Vasilyev
Self (archive footage)

Ilya Trauberg
Self (archive footage)

Grigori Kozintsev
Self (archive footage)

Vsevolod Pudovkin
Self (archive footage)
Directed by John Ford70%
The Class of ‘9271%
Sherman's March67%
Room 23761%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Being James Bond77%
Hitchcock/Truffaut72%
Seduced and Abandoned61%
Above Majestic73%
My Mom Jayne79%
The Skywalker Legacy78%
Elstree 197661%
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends71%
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home67%
McQueen74%
Night Will Fall76%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Sidney70%
Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!60%