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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

Unrated, 1 hr. 22 min.

Art House & International, Drama

Directed By: Sergei M. Eisenstein

In Theaters: Jan 1, 1925 Wide

On DVD: Jul 25, 2000

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Though flawed and schematic, it's nonetheless a mighty achievement for a young man with primitive equipment and no extensive training in filmmaking.

April 17, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Don Druker

Chicago Reader

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It's as crazy and full-of-beans as any debut film in history.

September 16, 2011 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

Eisenstein's first feature also remains his most watchable.

October 15, 2007 Full Review Source: Time Out

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Geoff Andrew

Time Out

A breathtaking essay on class conflict, not for its politics, but for its humanity and the imaginative brilliance of its director.

October 15, 2007 Full Review Source: Film4

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Film4

Lemming cinema: tragic, brutish, and inexorable.

April 19, 2005 Full Review Source: Film Freak Central

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Walter Chaw

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Important and accomplished film making from one of the most influential and greatest film makers of all time. Strike was and is a powerful reflection and retaliation with lessons still valid in today?s sociality. It's not as powerful or as epic as Battleship Potemkin that soon followed but it's still a true masterpiece

October 23, 2009

Anthony Lawrie

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"Strike" is a 1924 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein. In it, workers toil all day long at a factory in Czarist Russia. Relations between workers and bosses are peaceful but tense. Suddenly one day, an expensive instrument is stolen from a worker's desk and the innocent worker is accused of the theft. With

May 24, 2010

Walter M.

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