• Wednesday, Sep 10, 2025

    7 PM (105 mins)
    BAMPFA

    SOLD OUT

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Strike

(Stachka)

Sergei Eisenstein
USSR, 1925

BAMPFA Collection

  • Introduction
    Anne Nesbet

    Anne Nesbet is a Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Film & Media at UC Berkeley.

  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano
    Judith Rosenberg
featuring

Grigori Aleksandrov, Alexander Antonov, Mikhail Gomorov, Maksim Straukh,

The story of a factory workers’ strike in czarist Russia in 1912 and its brutal suppression, Strike, with its brilliant mixture of agitprop techniques and comic-grotesque stylization, reveals the influence of the explosively rich Soviet theater in which Sergei Eisenstein was involved. In surprise associations—intercutting shots of the secret police with animals, or a massacre with an abattoir—Eisenstein is at once playful and ferocious. Essential for introducing Eisenstein’s intellectual montage, Strike is filled with memorable scenes, such as a forbidden meeting in the stockyards, that give the flavor of the underground (both myth and reality) in prerevolutionary Russia.

FILM DETAILS 

Screenwriter

  • Sergei Eisenstein
  • Grigori Aleksandrov
  • Ilya Kravchunovsky
  • Valerian Pletnev

Cinematographer

  • Eduard Tissé

Language

  • Russian intertitles
  • with English electronic titling

Print Info

  • B&W
  • 35mm
  • Silent
  • 105 mins
  • 16fps

Source

  • BAMPFA

Permission

  • Kino Lorber

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