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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305908753
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Silent, NTSC
ISBN: 6305908753
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 25, 2000
Running Time: 94 minutes
Sales Rank: 34877
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1924
Editorial Review:
Description:
Sergei Eisenstein's 'Strike,' with Orson Welles' 'Citizen Kane,' mark the most outstanding cinematic debuts in the history of film. 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 the 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. This edition of 'Strike' is digitally remastered from a mint-condition 35mm print made from the original camera negative and features new digital stereo music composed and performed by the Alloy Orchestra.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - All very good
The film itself is a classic of filmmaking, showing the early concepts and developments of how to dramatize an idea. The content of the movie comes froms a soviet ideal, the exaltation of the factory worker, but this is not Eisenstein's most important feature, but instead the technique in which it is done. The beggining is stunning and simple, showing a puddle that reflects a worker and a factory behind him, big chimeneys of smoke, and showing that scenario by not looking directly to it, but by a ... Read More
Rating:  - Pretentious debut
Of all the Eisenstein films, "Strike" is easily the weakest. He attempts far too much in order to be eclectic and achieves far too little in the process. But it was his first movie, and it does feature some good examples of montage (which would be perfected with "Potemkin" and "October", two truly great works); it's just the humor that really kills this movie for me. If it hadn't been for his attempts at being amusing, and had he toned down a bit of the symbolism, "Strike" would rate much higher. ... Read More
Rating: - Strike
I agree with everyone who has seen this version of "Strike" Striking! Would there were a version of "Potemkin" as clear, cranked properly and with Meisel's score intact with the film.
Rating: - The auspicious film debut of director Sergei M. Eisenstein
If the quick and easy label is to call Sergei Eisenstein the Orson Welles of Soviet cinema, chronology notwithstanding, then "Strike" ("Stachka") is the great director's "Citizen Kane." This comparison would be dictated not by the greatness of this 1924 silent film, but rather by the fact "Strike" was Eisenstein's debut film. What the young Eisenstein clearly has in common with the young Welles is the reckless creativity of a kid with a brand new toy. The story is about the strike of factory workers ... Read More
Rating:  - Fascinating example of the early work of a master film-maker
The most noticeable thing about this film is the extremely fast editing. This is fast compared with modern films, but by its contemporaries, it's lightning fast. Eisenstein advocated what he called 'montage', meaning more the juxtaposition of two different or similar images by intercutting or fading between the two to allow the viewer to draw comparisons between the two images. This is sometimes subtle, and at other times blunt (such as the scene with the crowd being slaughtered being intercut with cattle ... Read More
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