Strike

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Call Number: Blu-ray Silent-Film Strike
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch

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Title taken from disc surface.
Blu-ray disc release of the 1925 motion picture.
"'Toward dictatorship'", a series of films on the workers' movement in Russia. First volume: Strike, in 6 parts." --Frame after title frame.
Blu-ray; disc will play only on Blu-ray disc players, Blu-ray disc computer drives and Playstation 3 game consoles.
Special features: Glumov's diary: Sergei Eisenstein's first film, a short made to be used in his stage production of Alexander Ostrovsky's "Enough stupidity in every wise man" (1923; 4 min.); "Eisenstein and the revolutionary spirit": film historian Natacha Laurent discusses Eisenstein's work in the context of the Communist Revolution and contemporary Soviet filmmaking (2008; 37 min.).
Performed by the First Workers' Theatre of Proletkult.
Mark the most outstanding cinematic debuts in the history of film. Triggered by the suicide of a worker unjustly accused of theft, a strike is called by the laborers of a Moscow factory. The managers, owner, and Czarist government dispatch infiltrators in an attempt to break the workers' unity. Unsuccessful, they hire the police and, in the film's most harrowing and powerful sequences, the unarmed strikers are slaughtered in a brutal confrontation.
Blu-ray; full-frame (1.33:1), 1920 x 1080p ; stereo 2.0.

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