
Room 666(1982)
During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders asked a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the camera, and answer a simple question: "What is the future of cinema?"

“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.

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)

Fridrikh Ermler
Self (archive footage)
The Magic Beam is a documentary film released in 1963. Directed by Leonid Makhnach, it stars Vladimir Lenin, Sergei Eisenstein, Eduard Tisse. “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.
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