Strike [videorecording] / a production of the First State Film Factory ; directed by Sergei Eisenstein ; produced by Boris Mikhin ; written by Grigori Aleksandrov ... [et al.]
"'Toward dictatorship'", a series of films on the workers' movement in Russia. First volume: Strike, in 6 parts." --Frame after title frame. "Restored by the Cinémathèque de Toulouse"--Cover. Release date: Aug. 30, 2011. Special features: Glumov's diary: Sergei Eisenstein's first film, a short made to be used in his stage production of Alexander Ostrovsky's "Enough stupidity in every wise man" (1923; 4 min.); "Eisentein and the revolutionary spirit": film historian Natacha Laurent discusses Eisenstein's work in the context of the Communist Revolution and contemporary Soviet filmmaking (2008; 37 min.) Performed by the First Workers' Theatre of Proletkult.
Summary:
Mark the most outstanding cinematic debuts in the history of film. Triggered by the suicide of a worker unjustly accused of theft, a strike is called by the laborers of a Moscow factory. The managers, owner, and Czarist government dispatch infiltrators in an attempt to break the workers' unity. Unsuccessful, they hire the police and, in the film's most harrowing and powerful sequences, the unarmed strikers are slaughtered in a brutal confrontation.
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