Strike (film)

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Strike
Directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein
Produced by Boris Mikhin
Written by Grigori Aleksandrov
Ilya Kravchunovsky
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Valeryan Pletnyov
Release date(s) Flag of Soviet Union April 28, 1925
Running time 82 min.
Country Flag of Soviet Union Soviet Union
Language Silent film
Russian intertitles
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Strike is a 1925 silent film made in the Soviet Union by Sergei Eisenstein. It was Eisenstein's first full-length feature film, and he would go on to make The Battleship Potemkin later that year.

The film depicts a strike by the workers of a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia, and their subsequent suppression. The film is most famous for a sequence near the end in which the violent putting down of the strike is cross-cut with footage of cattle being slaughtered, although there are several other points in the movie where animals are used as metaphors for the conditions of various individuals.

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