Ours is a sparkling print of this gorgeous film. One of the most original debuts in film history, Eisenstein's Strike reveals the influence of the explosively rich contemporary theater (particularly of Meyerhold) in its brilliant mixture of agit-prop techniques and comic-grotesque stylization. In telling of a factory workers' strike in Czarist Russia in 1912 and the brutal suppression of the strike, “Strike is full of cinematic metaphors and images of sight, sound, touch, smell and taste; it is a deluge of real things and surroundings--the spying in the latrine, the union meeting in the row-boat, the hosing of the demonstrating strikers, the final debacle....” (Jay Leyda, Kino)