Strike (1925)
In Russia's factory region during Czarist rule, there's restlessness and strike planning among workers; management brings in spies and external agents... (imdb)
Genre: Drama
AKA: Stachka
Country: Soviet Union
Directed By: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Written By: Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein
Starring: Aleksandr Antonov, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikhail Gomorov, Yudif Glizer, I. Ivanov, Ivan Klyukvin
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Eisenstein babanın efsane ilk işi 11 haz ev
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As much as I see the historical significance of this film, I just did not enjoy it. It was difficult to follow and fairly chaotic throughout.
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One of those rare films that tangibly moved the art form forward in a single instance.
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Frenetic would be and understatement. Strike is filled with cuts so rapid they rival the speed of modern action movies. The version I watched had a bizzare hypermodern electronic score that only enhanced the sense of paranoia and insanity this film builds. Highly recommend this version if you can find it, although as far as I can tell it only exists on TPB. /8008230/Stachka++Strike+%281925%29+Sergei+M.+Eisenstein
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Tiago Vieira | 80 60% |
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| Dec 01, 2016 | kupfertj | 85 86% |
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dardan | 80 85% |
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Propaganda film presumably meant, to a degree greater than Eisensteins other work, for the proletariat, or at least that is what the relative absence of layering and symbolism--the animal anology and, in hindsight, the last two parts, in which the weight of the matter that is the right to strike seeps in quite hard notwithstanding, in addition to the even more extreme, hilariously oversimplified portrait of the Bourgeoisie, seems to indicate. Full, blu-ray version: /watch?v=hG_yM7We0C8
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theobabis | 70 92% |
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| Apr 17, 2016 | FilmStar** | 97 88% |
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Eisenstein seems to care more about the idea of The Workers than he does with the workers themselves. As always, he can put together some arousing montage, but the effect is lost when the characters who comprise the movies are not people, but vessels for a conversation the director is having with himself. Vertov seems to share similar ideals with Eisenstein, and not only runs circles around Eisenstein's film language tinkering, but also breathes life into his rooks and pawns.
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| Apr 06, 2016 | Mr. Knoll | 98 94% |
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While other early directors were analytical in their exploration of film's possibilities and erudite in their application, Eisenstein was a mad scientist running amok on passion and angst. Close to a century old and still crass and sanctimonious enough for its propagandic punch, however nakedly manipulative, to mostly connect. Nice big setpieces and even in the plottier, more perfunctory scenes every shot is well-considered and impactful.
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The compositions and editing easily make this some of the most innovative work of the time. For something with so much brutality and nastiness, there's also a lot of playfulness, both in overt humor and how things are presented. Granted, it is very much propaganda, where everyone's either a grotesque caricature or a nameless speck in a teeming mass of united workers. Still, it's all so incredibly virtuosic and briskly done.
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Madcap revolution. Maybe my personal favourite of Eisenstein.
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The unbelievable fluidity of the editing, the very conscious visual language, the sheer exuberance-- nearly everything about this makes it a joy to watch [particularly the first couple of parts]. Just amazing.
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Eisenstein is understandably idolized by formalists who view cinema as an art of visual devices first and foremost. His characters and their facial expressions are archetypes, even physiognomic stereotypes, and the pictures he puts on screen are full of drama, action and symbolic meaning. "Strike" is less powerful considered narratologically - ultimately, it is propaganda, and like "Potemkin" it features manipulative scenes of violence against children (and probably actual animal abuse).
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rather convoluted compared to his coincident work battleship potemkin, but still...striking. aha.
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Arguably the most visually-audacious directorial debut in cinema history - a freewheeling Looney Toon of buffoonery and brutality in equal measure.
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It's a bit bloated, the bad guys are almost ludicrously caricatured and it can come of as a tad confusing at times. But at it's best Strike is riveting stuff - especially the finale which had me utterly gripped - and it's beautiful too. A bit of me wants to be more critical of it being propaganda even though I essentially agree with what the film is preaching, but the way it says it is so stirring and, ultimately, devastating that it’s hard not to get swept up by it.
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| Jan 03, 2013 | vlqwo | 80 92% |
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