Strike = Stachka
(DVD)

"'Toward dictatorship'", a series of films on the workers' movement in Russia. First volume: Strike, in 6 parts."--Frame after title frame.

"Restored by the Cinémathèque de Toulouse"--Cover.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1925.

Special features: Dnevnik Glumova = Glumov's diary: Sergei Eisenstein's first film, a short made to be used in his stage production of Alexander Ostrovsky's "Enough stupidity in every wise man" (1923; 4 min.); "Eisentein and the revolutionary spirit": film historian Natacha Laurent discusses Eisenstein's work in the context of the Communist Revolution and contemporary Soviet filmmaking (2008; 37 min.).

Camera, E. Tisse ; sets, Rakhals ; musical score compiled and performed by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.

Performed by the First Workers' Theatre of Proletkult.

Triggered by the suicide of a worker unjustly accused of theft, a strike is called by the laborers of a Moscow factory. The managers, owner, and Czarist government dispatch infiltrators in an attempt to break the workers' unity. Unsuccessful, they hire the police and, in the film's most harrowing and powerful sequences, the unarmed strikers are slaughtered in a brutal confrontation.

DVD format; NTSC; stereo 2.0; full frame.

Silent film with intertitles in English; some signage in film in Russian, with English translation.