Strike (1925 film)

Strike Russian , translit.Stachka is a 1925 silent film made in the Soviet Union by Sergei Eisenstein. It was Eisensteins first fulllength feature film, and he would go on to make The Battleship Potemkin later that year. It was acted by the Proletcult Theatre, and composed of six parts. It was in turn, intended to be one part of a sevenpart series, entitled Towards Dictatorship of the proletariat, that was left unfinished. Eisensteins influential essay, Montage of Attractions was written between Strikes production and premiere.

The strength of the working class is organization. Without organization of the masses, the proletarian is nothing. Organized it is everything. Being organized means unity of action, unity of practical activity.Using typography, the word but is added to the title of the chapter which then animates and dissolves into an image of machinery in motion. The administration is spying on the workers, reviewing a list of agents with vivid code names. Vignettes are shown of them. Conditions are tense with agitators and bolsheviks planning a strike prior to the catalytic event. ........

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