Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.
Editing
Eisenstein practically invented film editing here.
Direction
Relentless visual rhythm builds to devastating climax.
Cinematography
Stunning industrial landscapes and faces in anguish.
Director
Sergei Eisenstein
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Eisenstein's first feature film, made when he was just 27. He was hired by the Soviet government specifically to create propaganda celebrating the 1905 revolution.
The 'Odessa Steps' sequence in Battleship Potemkin gets all the glory, but Strike's factory-to-massacre montage established the same techniques two years earlier. Film students just prefer stairs I guess.
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