Sergei Eisenstein's first film is, without doubt, one of the most astonishing debuts in film history. His introduction of dialectical montage--which included then-innovative shock cuts to such violent images as a raised club, a bloody face, and a bull's throat being cut--both disturbed and galvanized contemporary audiences. .. Read more
| Starring | Maxim Shtraukh, Grigori Alexandrov, Mikhail Gomorov |
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| Director | Sergei Eisenstein |
| Genres | Drama |
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Sergei Eisenstein's first film is, without doubt, one of the most astonishing debuts in film history. His introduction of dialectical montage--which included then-innovative shock cuts to such violent images as a raised club, a bloody face, and a bull's throat being cut--both disturbed and galvanized contemporary audiences. Combined with the expressionistic compositional style Eisenstein had absorbed from French and German films, it established its director as a new force in world cinema. Commissioned by the government to commemorate the first, failed Bolshevik revolution, the film covers a 1912 strike at a metalworks factory whose workers have been bullied and humiliated by the plant management. When a fired worker commits suicide, the workers organize a peaceful strike. But the plant bosses make use of agents provocateurs and eventually bring in the czar's troops, who crack down on the strikers with maximum brutality. Aside from his editing innovations, Eisenstein pioneered the concept of the collective group as a character, influenced by the example of the newly formed Soviet Union, as well as the Constructivist art of the period.
| Starring | Maxim Shtraukh, Grigori Alexandrov, Mikhail Gomorov |
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| Director | Sergei Eisenstein |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 35 mins LOVEFiLM Instant: 1 hr 21 mins |
| Certificate |  DVD LOVEFiLM Instant |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: Silent LOVEFiLM Instant: Silent |
| Released | Production year: 1924 To Watch Online: LOVEFiLM Instant: 14 Sep 2010 To Rent: DVD: To be confirmed |
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Eisenstein's first feature also remains his most watchable; if his theories of montage and typage were already much... read more on Time Out
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Repulsive in purpose...
Repulsive in purpose, enthralling as a study of propaganda and the twisted values of soviet society.
A very good film. Not as good as Battleship ... read more »
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eisenstein's remarkable debut
'strike' is an improbably self-assured and strong debut from sergei eisenstein- a talent whose impact on the world cinema has proven to be as powerful ... read more »
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Poor cow..
I absolutely hated this film. I found the jump cuts and discontinuity gave me a headache. The violence upon the innocent people made me sick. So did the cow bit... read more »
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Lenin meets Charlie Chaplin….
And if all this film was, then it wouldn’t really be worth the effort. It is very clear that this is a ground-breaking film by one of the most lauded and ... read more »
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