Strike

1925 [RUSSIAN]

Action / Drama

6
IMDb Rating 7.6/10 10 9354 9.4K

police brutality strike street riots uprising russian politics silent film

Plot summary

Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.

Director

Sergei M. Eisenstein Photo
Sergei M. Eisenstein

Top cast

Vladimir Uralskiy Photo
Vladimir Uralskiy as (as V. Uralsky)
Maksim Shtraukh Photo
Maksim Shtraukh as Police Spy
M. Mamin Photo
M. Mamin
Boris Yurtsev Photo
Boris Yurtsev as King of Thieves
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815.03 MB
968*720
Russian 2.0
NR
Subtitles ru  
19.181 fps
1 hr 28 min
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1.48 GB
1440*1072
Russian 2.0
NR
Subtitles ru  
19.181 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 15

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Snow Leopard

Interesting, With Some Memorable Imagery

Sergei Eisenstein's "Strike", like his more well-known films, is interesting and contains some memorable imagery. The story is worthwhile in itself, and it repays careful attention because of the considerable detail that is shown using Eisenstein's distinctive approach. It lacks any particularly interesting characters, but then, so did "Battleship Potemkin". Only an occasional lack of polish sets this apart from Eisenstein's later films.The story starts with the situations that provoke the strike, and then follows developments on both sides of the dispute. It becomes surprisingly involved for what seems at first to be a simple confrontation. There is quite an assortment of situations, settings, and characters. On occasion, the images are overdone, occasionally even off-putting, but you can already see the creative use of imagery that Eisenstein would later use so effectively."Strike" will probably be of interest mainly to those who already appreciate Eisenstein's films, but it is worth seeing. It is really only a cut below "Potemkin", which itself, though generally the most-praised of his films, might actually be surpassed by some of his later works. In any case, "Strike" displays the same kind of style, and has several of the characteristics of the fine classics that were to come.
Reviewed by alice liddell 9 / 10

The most watchable and least problematic of Eisenstein's masterpieces.

Eisenstein's most purely enjoyable film, possibly because the theorems are more lifelike. In many ways a comedy, as the villains (military, police, factory owners, underworld scabs) are caricatured and dehumanised, which makes the eventual horrors all the more shocking. The workers are, of course, idealised, but their paradise of laziness seems odd for a Communist work.Montage is the thing, as ever with Eisenstein, both in terms of connecting images to create startling insights, and in making tense, exciting and inevitable the action; but there is an astonishing attention to compositional detail too, most haunting perhaps being the empty, abandoned, impotent, machine-heavy factories, or the vast-stepped drawing rooms of the bloated capitalists.
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