Veteran directors experienced precipitous career declines under this system of control; whereas Eisenstein was able to make four features between 1924 and 1929, he completed only one film, Alexander Nevsky (1938) during the entire decade of the 1930s.
Režiseri veterani su doživjeli pad u karijeri; iako je Ejzenštejn uspio snimiti četiri dugometražna filma između 1924. i 1929., dovršio je samo jedan film, Aleksandr Nevski (1938.), tijekom tog desetljeća.