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Strike

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Strike is a 1925 Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein, his first feature as director, dramatizing a factory workers' strike in pre-revolutionary Russia and its violent suppression by the authorities. Eisenstein used the film to develop the theory of montage editing he would refine further in his next film, Battleship Potemkin, and cast largely non-professional performers selected for their physical type rather than trained actors, a technique he called typage. Though less widely seen today than Battleship Potemkin, it is regarded by film historians as a foundational work of Soviet montage cinema and an important record of Eisenstein's early style.

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Release Year
1925 1
Country
Soviet Union 1
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Original Language
Russian 1
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1. Strike (1925 film), Wikipedia
  • Lead section, first sentence
    Strike is a 1925 Soviet silent propaganda film directed and edited by Sergei Eisenstein.
  • Lead section, first sentence (country)
    Strike is a 1925 Soviet silent propaganda film directed and edited by Sergei Eisenstein.
  • Strike, Description, original language
    Strike is a 1925 Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein, his first feature as director, dramatizing a factory workers' strike in pre-revolutionary Russia and its violent suppression by the authorities.
  • In Medium: Film, Article lead sentence
    Strike (Russian: Стачка, romanized: Stachka) is a 1925 Soviet silent propaganda film directed and edited by Sergei Eisenstein.
  • Created By: Sergei Eisenstein, Article lead sentence
    Strike (Russian: Стачка, romanized: Stachka) is a 1925 Soviet silent propaganda film directed and edited by Sergei Eisenstein.
  • In Group: Soviet Montage Cinema, Lead
    Strike (Russian: Стачка, romanized: Stachka) is a 1925 Soviet silent propaganda film directed and edited by Sergei Eisenstein.
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