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1 videocassette (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
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.
directed by Sergei Eisenstein ; Gosinko and Proletkult production.
Originally released in 1925 as a motion picture.
Silent film with Russian intertitles, English subtitles and musical accompaniment.
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.