Stachka . Strike - Toward the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Duration: 01:22:00 The first full-length feature project of filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, Strike is a government-commissioned celebration of the unrealized 1905 Bolshevik revolution. The story is set in motion by a series of outrages and humiliations perpetrated on the workers of a metalworks plant....
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
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LST State Film Factory Production
1924
Soviet Union |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:6e500bdb-3e94-48c0-916c-cfc21ba24149 |
| Summary: | Duration: 01:22:00
The first full-length feature project of filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, Strike is a government-commissioned celebration of the unrealized 1905 Bolshevik revolution. The story is set in motion by a series of outrages and humiliations perpetrated on the workers of a metalworks plant. The Czarist regime is unsympathetic to the workers, characteristically helping the plant owners to subjugate the hapless victims. Finally, the workers revolt, staging an all-out strike. Here is where Eisenstein's theory of "the montage of shocks" was given its first major workout. |
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| Published: | 1924 |