| Distributor:Image Entertainment Synopsis: The first full-length feature project of pantheon Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, Strike is a government-commissioned celebration of the unrealized 1905 Bolshevik revolution. The story is set in motion by a series of outrages and humiliations perpetrated on the workers of a metalworks plant. The Czarist regime is unsympathetic to the workers, characteristically helping the plant owners to subjugate the hapless victims. Finally, the workers revolt, staging an all-out strike. Here is where Eisenstein's ... Full Synopsis Sergei Eisenstein's Strike DVD Features Glumov's Diary - (1923, 4 min.) For years considered lost, Eisentein's first film is a playful experiment short made for his stage production of Alexander Ostrovsky's Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man Eisenstein and the Revolutionary Spirit (2008, 37 Min.) - Film historian Natacha Laurent places Eisenstein's work in the context of the Communist Revolution and contemporary Soviet filmmaking DVD Features Glumov's Diary - For Years considered lost, Eisenstein's first film is a playful experimental short made for his stage production of Alexander Ostrovsky's Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man Eisenstein and the Revolutionary Spirit - Film Historian Natacha Laurent places Eisenstein's work in the context of the Communist Revolution and contemporary Soviet filmmaking | |