Strike /

During the Tsarist regime, a worker in Moscow is unjustly accused of theft and commits suicide. When his co-workers call a strike in protest, management, the owners and the government dispatch infiltrators to attempt to break the strike. Unsuccessful, they call in the police and the strikers are sla...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Stachka (Motion picture)
Corporate Author: Kino International Corporation
Other Authors: Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948, Aleksandrov, Grigoriĭ Vasilʹevich, 1903-1984, Strauch, Maxim
Format: Video VHS
Language:Russian
Language Notes:Silent film with Russian intertitles, English subtitles and musical accompaniment.
Published: New York, NY : Kino on Video, [1999]
Series:Soviet avant garde.
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Summary:During the Tsarist regime, a worker in Moscow is unjustly accused of theft and commits suicide. When his co-workers call a strike in protest, management, the owners and the government dispatch infiltrators to attempt to break the strike. Unsuccessful, they call in the police and the strikers are slaughtered in a brutal confrontation.
Item Description:Originally released in 1925 as a motion picture.
A foreign film (Soviet Union).
Digitally mastered from 35mm print.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videocassette (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
Format:VHS.
Production Credits:Scenario, Valeri Pletnyov, Sergei Eisenstein, I. Kravchunovsky, Gregori Alexandrov (Proletkult Collective) ; photography, Eduard Tisse, Vasili Khvatov ; music composed and performed by the Alloy Orchestra ; produced for video by David Shepard.