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A poor peasant woman, played by a real one, Marfa Lapkina, talks her village into a dairy cooperative. The set piece is the arrival of the cream separator: the farmers stare, the machine turns, the first drops come, and Eisenstein cuts it like a religious miracle until milk is spraying off the screen.
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His last silent. The Party changed the line on the countryside during production and the title changed with it. The separator is where form outruns the assignment.
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