Strike (1925)
Just before the 1905 Bolshevik Revolution, factory workers strike against their oppressive factory bosses. When a worker is accused of stealing a piece of machinery, he commits suicide, and his colleagues revolt against the overarching Czarist regime. As the strike drags on and government officials grow increasingly desperate to end it, their methods of dealing with the rebellious workers become more and more aggressive.
Director:
Sergei Eisenstein
Writers:
Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein, Ilya Kravchunovsky, Valerian Pletnev.
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Maksim Shtraukh as Police Spy |
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Grigori Aleksandrov as Factory Foreman |
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Mikhail Gomorov as Worker |
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Ivan Klyukvin as Revolutionary |
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Aleksandr Antonov as Member of Strike Committee |
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Vladimir Uralskiy as Worker |
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Anatoliy Kuznetsov as |
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I. Ivanov as Chief of Police |
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Yudif Glizer as Queen of Thieves |
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Vera Yanukova as Worker's wife |
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M. Mamin as |
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Boris Yurtsev as King of Thieves |
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Danylo Antonovych as Worker (uncredited) |
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Pavel Poltoratskiy as Manufacturer |
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Leonid Alekseev as |
| Directing | Sergei Eisenstein | Director |
| Writing | Grigori Aleksandrov | Screenplay |
| Writing | Sergei Eisenstein | Screenplay |
| Writing | Ilya Kravchunovsky | Screenplay |
| Writing | Valerian Pletnev | Screenplay |
| Production | Boris Mikhin | Producer |
| Camera | Vasili Khvatov | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Eduard Tisse | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Grigori Aleksandrov | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Ilya Kravchunovsky | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Aleksandr Levshin | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Vladimir Popov | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Sergei Eisenstein | Editor |
| Art | Vasiliy Rakhals | Production Design |