Strike
“Down with autocracy! Long live the democratic republic!”
Just before the 1905 Bolshevik Revolution, factory workers strike against their oppressive factory bosses. When a worker is accused of stealing a piece of machinery, he commits suicide, and his colleagues revolt against the overarching Czarist regime. As the strike drags on and government officials grow increasingly desperate to end it, their methods of dealing with the rebellious workers become more and more aggressive.
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Cast
15 people
Maksim Shtraukh
Police Spy
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Lenin in Poland
The Fall of Berlin
Grigori Aleksandrov
Factory Foreman
Known for
Battleship Potemkin
Mikhail Gomorov
Worker
Known for
Battleship Potemkin
Ivan Klyukvin
Revolutionary
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Wings of a Serf
26 Commissioners
Aleksandr Antonov
Member of Strike Committee
Known for
Battleship Potemkin
Vladimir Uralskiy
Worker
Known for
Mother
Aelita: Queen of Mars
Anatoliy Kuznetsov
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The Return of Maxim
Engineer Gof
I. Ivanov
Chief of Police
Yudif Glizer
Queen of Thieves
Vera Yanukova
Worker's wife
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Glumov's Diary
Convicts
M. Mamin
Boris Yurtsev
King of Thieves
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Sergei Eisenstein Director · Grigori Aleksandrov Screenplay Ilya Kravchunovsky Screenplay
First release February 1, 1925 · Produced in Russia, Russia · Languages No dialogue, Russian
Production
Proletkult
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Goskino
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Goskino Russia
Production
Russia · Russia
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Original title
Стачка
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
No dialogue · Russian
Release dates
Russia · February 1, 1925
Premiere · Leningrad
Russia · April 28, 1925
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Czechia
November 17, 2022 · Theatrical
France
May 13, 1925 · Theatrical
Netherlands
August 7, 2009 · Physical · DVD
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