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Strike ()

Stachka (original title)
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A group of oppressed factory workers go on strike in pre-revolutionary Russia.
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Maksim Shtraukh ...
Police Spy
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Factory Foreman
Mikhail Gomorov ...
Yakov Strongin - Worker
I. Ivanov ...
Chief of Police
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Revolutionary
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Member of Strike Committee
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Queen of Thieves
Anatoliy Kuznetsov
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Worker's Wife
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(as V. Uralsky)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Boris Yurtsev ...
King of Thieves
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Factory Sleuth (uncredited)
Daniil Antonovich ...
Worker (uncredited)
Pyotr Malek ...
Police Spy (uncredited)
Misha Mamin ...
Baby Boy (uncredited)
Pavel Poltoratskiy ...
Stockholder (uncredited)

Directed by

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Sergei Eisenstein ... (as S. Eisenstein)

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Grigoriy Aleksandrov ... ()
 
Sergei Eisenstein ... () (as Sergei M. Eisenstein)
 
Ilya Kravchunovsky ... ()
 
Valerian Pletnev ... ()

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Boris Mikhin ... producer

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Vasili Khvatov
Vladimir Popov
Eduard Tisse ... (as E. Tisse)

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Vasiliy Rakhals ... (as Rakhals)

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Grigoriy Aleksandrov ... assistant director
Ilya Kravchunovsky ... assistant director
Aleksandr Levshin ... assistant director (as A. Levshin)

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Mihály Bíró ... poster artist: Austria
Anton Lavinsky ... poster artist

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Vasili Khvatov ... assistant camera (as U. Khuatov)
Vladimir Popov ... assistant camera

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Plot Summary

In Russia's factory region during Czarist rule, there's restlessness and strike planning among workers; management brings in spies and external agents. When a worker hangs himself after being falsely accused of thievery, the workers strike. At first, there's excitement in workers' households and in public places as they develop their demands communally. Then, as the strike drags on and management rejects demands, hunger mounts, as does domestic and civic distress. Provocateurs recruited from the lumpen and in league with the police and the fire department bring problems to the workers; the spies do their dirty work; and, the military arrives to liquidate strikers. Written by

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Also Known As
  • Стачка (Soviet Union, Russian title)
  • Gapitsva (Soviet Union, Georgian title)
  • Strike (United States)
  • Strike (Canada, English title)
  • Strike (India, English title)
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Trivia Strike (Russian: Strike (1925)) is a Soviet silent propaganda film edited and directed 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 (1925) (Russian: Bronenosets Potyomkin) emerged from the same film cycle. See more »
Goofs The story is set in 1903. Throughout the film, automobiles from the 1920s appear on streets. One is the 1920s auto that the worker (who stole the administrators' posted reply to workers' demands) tried to use to escape police goons during a nighttime rainstorm. When upper-class women appear, they are wearing contemporary 1920s fashions, and the popular music that's on the sound track is also from the 1920s. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into Ten Days That Shook the World (1967). See more »
Quotes Title Card: At the factory, all is calm. BUT. The boys are restless.
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