Strike
- Drama
Just before the 1905 Bolshevik Revolution, factory workers strike against their oppressive factory bosses. When a worker is accused of stealing a piece of machinery, he commits suicide, and his colleagues revolt against the overarching Czarist regime. As the strike drags on and government officials grow increasingly desperate to end it, their methods of dealing with the rebellious workers become more and more aggressive.
- Directed by
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Written by
- Ilya Kravchunovsky, Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein, Valerian Pletnev
Cast
- Maksim Shtraukh
- Grigori Aleksandrov
- Mikhail Gomorov
- Ivan Klyukvin
- Aleksandr Antonov
- Vladimir Uralskiy
- Anatoliy Kuznetsov
- I. Ivanov
- Yudif Glizer
- Vera Yanukova
- M. Mamin
- Boris Yurtsev
Keywords
- 20th century
- death squads
- mass slaughter
- silent film
- police brutality
- oppression
- uprising
- labor union
- soviet union history
- strike
- street riots
- riot police
- labor strike
- 1900s
- human dignity
- political violence
- soviet politics
- russian politics
- worker's rights
- animal slaughter
- human rights protest
- russian kommunism
- labour movement
- general strike
- political movement
- communist movement
- labor negotiation
- child killed by police
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