Стачка (1925)

Drama

The film depicts a strike in 1903 by the workers of a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia, and their subsequent suppression. The film is most famous for a sequence near the end in which the violent putting down of the strike is cross-cut with footage of cattle being slaughtered, although there are several other points in the movie where animals are used as metaphors for the conditions of various individuals. Another theme in the film is collectivism in opposition to individualism which was viewed as a convention of western film.

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Runtime: 89 mins Rating: 7.2

Cast

Grigori Aleksandrov

Factory Foreman

Aleksandr Antonov

Member of Strike Committee

Mikhail Gomorov

Worker

Maksim Shtraukh

Police Spy

Vladimir Uralsky

Anatoliy Kuznetsov

Daniil Antonovich

Worker (uncredited)

Ivan Klyukvin

Revolutionary

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Crew

Sergei M. Eisenstein

Director

Sergei M. Eisenstein

Screenplay

Vladimir Popov

Director of Photography

Eduard Tisse

Director of Photography