Strike

Directed by Sergei Eisenstein

Written by Ilya Kravchunovsky, Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein, Valerian Pletnev

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.

Cast

Maksim Shtraukh

Police Spy

Grigori Aleksandrov

Factory Foreman

Mikhail Gomorov

Worker

Ivan Klyukvin

Revolutionary

Aleksandr Antonov

Member of Strike Committee

Vladimir Uralskiy

Worker

Anatoliy Kuznetsov

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I. Ivanov

Chief of Police

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Yudif Glizer

Queen of Thieves

Vera Yanukova

Worker's wife

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M. Mamin

Boris Yurtsev

King of Thieves