Strike
Stachka
1925
Synopsis
1903. Russian factory workers are in the midst of planning strike action when a compatriot accused of theft hangs himself, and the workers walk out. Sparing no one, the factory owners conspire with czarist agents and the Cossacks to bring the strikers and their struggling families into submission.
Editorial
The debut by Soviet film titan and one of the most influential filmmakers in cinema history, Sergei Eistenstein. Vivid, viscous, invigorating and utterly scathing in its critique of capitalism and the tribulations of striking workers, the film immediately declares itself the work of a visionary.
