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7.4Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.
Cast
- Maksim Shtraukh as Police Spy
- Grigori Aleksandrov as Factory Foreman
- Mikhail Gomorov as Worker
- Ivan Klyukvin as Revolutionary
- Aleksandr Antonov as Member of Strike Committee
- Vladimir Uralskiy as Worker
Themes
- police brutality
- strike
- street riots
- uprising
- russian politics
- silent film
- oppression
- labor strike
- labor union
- riot police
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Ratings
IMDb
7.6/10
8,788 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
100%
- Year
- 1925
- Runtime
- 82 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Rated
- Not Rated
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Written by
- Grigori Aleksandrov Ilya Kravchunovsky [ ru ] Sergei Eisenstein Valerian Pletnev
- Produced by
- Boris Mikhin
- Starring
- Grigori Aleksandrov Maksim Shtraukh Mikhail Gomorov
- Cinematography
- Eduard Tisse Vladimir Popov Vasili Khvatov
- Edited by
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Production company
- 1st Goskino Factory
- Distributed by
- Goskino
- Release date
- 28 April 1925 ( 1925-04-28 )
- Running time
- 82 minutes
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Languages
- Silent film , Russian intertitles
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 82
- FilmAffinity ID
- 156554
- Image
- Stachka.jpg
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- Commons category
- Strike (film)
- publication date
- 1925-04-28
- title
- Стачка
- review score
- 100%
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Article
Strike (Russian: Стачка, romanized: Stachka) is a 1925 Soviet silent propaganda film directed and edited by Sergei Eisenstein. Originating as one entry out of a proposed seven-part series titled "Towards Dictatorship of the Proletariat", Strike was a joint collaboration between the Proletcult Theatre and the film studio Goskino. As Eisenstein's first full-length feature film, it marked his transition from theatre to cinema, and his next film Battleship Potemkin emerged from the same film cycle.
Arranged in six parts, the film depicts a strike in 1903 by the workers of a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia, and their subsequent suppression. It is best known for a sequence towards the climax, in which the violent suppression of the strike is cross-cut with footage of cattle being slaughtered, and similar animal metaphors are used throughout the film to describe various individuals.