Strike
1925 · Movie · Not Rated · 89 min · ★ 7.4 · 95% critics
Workers at a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia organize and walk out in a strike. Their demands are met with violent suppression from those in power, escalating the conflict into intense chaos.
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Details
- Original title
- Стачка
- Years
- 1925
- Release date
- 1925-04-28
- Language
- Russian
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Critic score
- 95/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.4/10 (246 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy Strike if you’re drawn to influential silent protest films and intense crowd drama, especially if you can handle blunt propaganda and violence; Not for you if you want character-focused storytelling, gentler themes, or if you only like Battleship Potemkin-style action without heavier political messaging.
Pros: visually striking silent era; relentless collective struggle; historically influential | Cons: heavy propaganda tone; harsh, violent imagery; pacing may feel dry
Themes
- police brutality
- strike
- street riots
- uprising
- russian politics
- silent film
- oppression
- labor strike
- labor union
- riot police
- worker's rights
- animal slaughter
- +14 more
Cast & crew
Maksim Shtraukh
as Police Spy
Grigori Aleksandrov
as Factory Foreman
- MG
Mikhail Gomorov
as Worker
Ivan Klyukvin
as Revolutionary
Aleksandr Antonov
as Member of Strike Committee
Vladimir Uralskiy
as Worker
Anatoliy Kuznetsov
- II
I. Ivanov
as Chief of Police
- YG
Yudif Glizer
as Queen of Thieves
Vera Yanukova
as Worker's wife
Directed by Sergei Eisenstein