Classic Russian films on video Directed by Sergei Eisenstein including STRIKE ( Towards the Dictatorship of the Proletariat), THE BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN, TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD (October), ALEXANDER NEVSKY, IVAN THE TERRIBLE (Ivan Groxnyi), EISENSTEIN. STRIKE Stachka / Towards the Dictatorship of the Proletariat In 1912. after peaceful efforts to settle a strike fail the government sends in cavalrymen and a terrible slaughter ensues. Exceptional of use of caricature, visual metaphor and shock cutting Russian Montage. The sequences in which shots of the police killing the strikers and their families are intercut with slaughterhouse footage is a classic overshadowed only by the Odessa Steps sequence. This was Eisenstein's first feature film and was Intended to be the first of an eight part series documenting the events that lead to the worker's revolt. Although the series was never completed, Strike stands alone as one of Eisenstein's masterpieces. Directed by Sergei Eisenstein. Script; Sergei Eisenstein,Valeri Pletniov, Kravchinovski. Photo; Edward Tisse. Cast; Maxim Shtraukh, Grigori Alexandrov, Mikhail Gomorov, I. Ivanov, I. Klukvin | |
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