Strike

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Strike is a 1925 Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein, renowned for its pioneering use of montage and its depiction of a workers’ uprising.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Soviet film
film
silent film
cinematographyBy Eduard Tisse
countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
depicts class struggle
police repression
workers’ strike
director Sergei Eisenstein
distributor Goskino
filmEra silent era
format black-and-white film
genre drama film
political film
revolutionary film
hasFilmTechnique cross-cutting
intellectual montage
symbolic imagery
hasTechnique montage
influenced development of film editing
political cinema
language Russian
leadActor Grigori Aleksandrov
Maksim Shtraukh
Mikhail Gomorov
medium 35 mm film
movement Soviet montage school
musicBy Edmund Meisel
notableFor depiction of a workers’ uprising
pioneering use of montage
originalTitle Stachka
partOf early works of Sergei Eisenstein
productionCompany Goskino
releaseDate 1925-04-28
releaseYear 1925
runningTimeMinutes 82
setting factory
industrial environment
theme collective action
exploitation of workers
revolutionary struggle
title Strike
writtenBy Grigori Aleksandrov
Ilya Kravchunovsky
Sergei Eisenstein
Valerian Pletnev
Viktor Shklovsky

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Sergei Eisenstein
Soviet montage school
notableWork
Strike
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