Strike (1925)
Strike (1925)
(Stachka, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Soviet Union 1925, 95 min., 35mm, Russian intertitles w/English subtitles)
Labor Film Series | The Alloy Orchestra in Concert. The workers of the world unite in this forceful, brilliantly constructed film of labor triumphant against brutal factory owners, government inspectors, and police spies. The official purpose of this government-sponsored project was to inform the masses, but Eisenstein believed that films should not merely impart information but sensation and impression as well. His debut feature is thus made up of images of collective action and a brilliant “montage of attractions”: a cinematic perpetual motion machine, with each action or movement yielding its force to a subsequent one, all towards the utopian goal of worker solidarity and emancipation.
The renowned Alloy Orchestra returns to the Dryden to perform live musical accompaniment in a cinematic experience not to be missed!
Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.