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...
| Uniform Title: | Stachka (Motion picture) |
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| Other Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Video VHS |
| Language: | Russian |
| Language Notes: | Silent film with Russian intertitles, English subtitles and musical accompaniment. |
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New York, NY :
Kino on Video,
[1999]
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| 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. |
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| 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. |