
Film
Sergei M. Eisenstein: The Language of Cinema
Strike
One of the first major films of the Soviet Montage movement, Strike is a highly political propaganda film with strong statements about collectivism. The film depicts a strike in the year 1903 by the workers of a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia, and explores the labourers’ tension and hardship under the ruling class.
SOVIET UNION • 1925 • 1 HR 22 MINS • SILENT