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Strike (1925)

Strike (1925)

Drama

Down with autocracy! Long live the democratic republic!

Release Date: 1925, April 28
Directors: Sergei Eisenstein
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Proletkult, Goskino
Cast: Vera Yanukova, Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Uralskiy, Danylo Antonovych, Pavel Poltoratskiy, Maksim Shtraukh, Yudif Glizer, Ivan Klyukvin, I. Ivanov

Overview:

Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.

Keywords:

police brutality oppression soviet union history uprising labor union street riots riot police silent film labor strike strike death squads russian politics soviet politics worker's rights political violence human dignity human rights protest animal slaughter communist movement mass slaughter labor negotiation russian kommunism labour movement general strike political movement child killed by police