Strike

Strike (1925)

28/04/1925
Drama
1h 29m

Down with autocracy! Long live the democratic republic!

Overview

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

  • Sergei EisensteinDirector, Screenplay
  • Grigori AleksandrovScreenplay
  • Ilya KravchunovskyScreenplay
  • Original Title

    Стачка

  • Status

    Released

  • Original Language

    Russian

Keywords

  • police brutality
  • strike
  • street riots
  • uprising
  • russian politics
  • silent film
  • oppression
  • labor strike
  • labor union
  • riot police
  • worker's rights
  • animal slaughter
  • russian kommunism
  • soviet union history
  • human rights protest
  • human dignity
  • soviet politics
  • death squads
  • mass slaughter
  • labour movement
  • general strike
  • political movement
  • communist movement
  • labor negotiation
  • political violence
  • child killed by police

Top Billed Cast

Maksim Shtraukh

Maksim Shtraukh

Police Spy

Grigori Aleksandrov

Grigori Aleksandrov

Factory Foreman

Mikhail Gomorov

Worker

Ivan Klyukvin

Ivan Klyukvin

Revolutionary

Aleksandr Antonov

Aleksandr Antonov

Member of Strike Committee

Vladimir Uralskiy

Vladimir Uralskiy

Anatoliy Kuznetsov

Anatoliy Kuznetsov

I. Ivanov

Chief of Police

Yudif Glizer

Queen of Thieves

Vera Yanukova

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