Strike (Stachka) (1924)
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The first full-length feature project of pantheon Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, Strike is a government-commissioned celebration of the unrealized 1905 Bolshevik revolution. The story is set in motion by a series of outrages and humiliations perpetrated on the workers of a metalworks plant. The Czarist regime is unsympathetic to the workers, characteristically helping the plant owners to subjugate the hapless victims. Finally, the workers revolt, staging an all-out strike. Here is where
Jan 1, 1925 Wide
Jul 25, 2000
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Eisenstein's first feature also remains his most watchable.
Top CriticThough flawed and schematic, it's nonetheless a mighty achievement for a young man with primitive equipment and no extensive training in filmmaking.
Kino's hi-def releases of Strike and Battleship Potemkin still embody the ideological character and formal-intellectual rigor of Eisenstein's early films...but they've got a new box.
Quite the agitprop hootenanny
It's as crazy and full-of-beans as any debut film in history.
A breathtaking essay on class conflict, not for its politics, but for its humanity and the imaginative brilliance of its director.
Lemming cinema: tragic, brutish, and inexorable.
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Office Writers Explain The Strike; Eisner Calls It StupidIt has been less than a week since the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike officially began, but...
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Foreign Titles
- Streik (DE)
- Strike (UK)
