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Strike

In 1922, Lenin also had said that, "...of all of the arts, for us the cinema was the most important." In 1924, the Proletkult offered Eisenstein, then 26 years of age, the job of directing the first of eight episodes in the film series Towards the Dictatorship. This brilliant and complex re-creation of the development of a 1912 factory strike in Tsarist Russia, and its savage destruction by agents provocateurs, police and mounted troops, was an ideal vehicle for the youthful Eisenstein to express his desire to reflect the dialectic of the Russian revolution in the most comprehensive of art forms. Eisenstein had been developing the Kuloshov's 'montage' effect in editing and in this, his first film, he uses it with tremendous skill to enhance symbolism and achieve highly charged emotional responses to the strength, energy and heroism of the working classes and the tragic events depicted. 'Strike' is a truly visual and technical masterpiece which is, at times, overwhelming in its powerful portrayal of these events in history. 'Strike' was the only film ever made in the series and it changed the direction of the soviet cinema for many decades to

Year: 1924
Genre: Foreign Language Films, Russian Cinema, Silent Films, Best of the 1920s, Movies (1001 You Must See Before You Die), Classic Cinema
Country: Russia
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
Starring: Maxim Shtraukh, Grigori Alexandrov, Mikhail Gomorov
Duration: 80 Minutes
Rating: M
Subtitles: Yes
7.6/10
Location in store: Classic - Silent Film

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