Strike

At the time of “Strike”, his first film, Eisenstein was a director of the Proletkult Theatre, an organisation with a boldly original technique of acting which led him logically to the medium of the cinema. The film has little formal plot in the conventional sense; a characteristic brilliance of wit and image association here achieves an almost surrealistic intensity. The photography often achieves effects reminiscent of the ‘metaphysical objects’ school of painting.

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Credits

production company

Goskino

Proletkult

director

Sergei Eisenstein

Duration

01:22:00:00

Production places

Soviet Union

Production dates

1924

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

324948

Subject categories

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Strikes and lockouts

Experimental

Experimental → Experimental films - Soviet Union

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - Soviet Union

Silent films

Sound/audio

Silent

Colour

Black and White

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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Soviet Union, 1924

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