Strike [Stachka] **** (1925, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Maksim Shtraukh, Mikhail Gomorov) – Classic Movie Review 7471

After several years of working in experimental theatre, the great Russian director Sergei M Eisenstein made a dazzling cinema début with this forceful 1925 evocation of a strike by oppressed Russian factory workers in the pre-revolutionary Czarist Russia of 1912.

Exuberantly made, Strike is full of gleeful caricatures, crackerjack editing and of course huge propaganda fervour.

Grigoriy Aleksandrov [Grigori Alexandrov] is co-writer, assistant director and stars as the factory foreman.

Pravda called it ‘The first revolutionary creation of our cinema’.

Also in the cast are Maksim Shtraukh [Maxim Strauch], Mikhail Gomorov, Alexandr Antonov, Yudif Glizer, Ivan Ivanov, Ivan Klyukvin, Vladimir Uralsky, Vera Yanukova and Boris Yurtsev.

© Derek Winnert 2018 Classic Movie Review 7471

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