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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: 82 minutes
Sales Rank: 21995
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1924
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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.
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Rating:  - Eisenstein's best - with a great new score!
I've been watching and enjoying Eisenstein for ages, but watched "Strike" only recently (at the recommendation of my SEIU union president, no less). Strike is a truly revolutionary film -- as art and entertainment, as well as politics. While Eisenstein could always succeed at these three levels, his films became more and more "conservative" over time, more ponderous, more conventional, more obsessed with power. This first film is full of energy and surprises -- company spies you can't help liking for their comical antics; agents-provocateurs you admire for their theatricality; dream sequences on a par with Twin Peaks. But it also tells the story of a strike with all the power and clarity of the best labor movies (e.g. Norma Rae), yet on a bigger, more brutal scale. The Alloy Orchestra provides a score that equals the epic panoramas of the factories, tenements, and intense conflict. They cover Eisenstein's emotional range from the hilarious to the devastating. One of my top ten.
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 mirror, is something to admire.
I am to become a film student, so I bought this film in this remastered edition so I can watch it as best as possible. And mainly to learn from it.
It is worth it, and amazon always delivers. I live in Uruguay, far, far away from the US, and the shipment always arrives safely.
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. As it is, it's a historically important, pompous bore. Image does have a nice quality dvd though.
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 in Czarist Russia in 1912, which ends with the rebellious comrades being brutally beaten down.
Eisenstein might be consumed with exploring the boundaries of cinematic technique, but he does evince some basic storytelling skills here. The climatic tragedy is set up initial comic element, which gain our sympathy for the workers on a human rather than an ideological level. Certainly a management that brings in spies and agents to infiltrate the oppressed workers cannot be supported. The strike begins after a factory worker, falsely accused of being a thief, hangs himself. The initial excitement over the prospects of success faded as the strike goes on and on. When the provocateurs hired by management finally bring things to a head, the tired and hungry workers are no match for the military troops that come to crush them. "Strike" features Grigori Aleksandrov as the Factory Foreman, Aleksandr Antonov as a Member of Strike Committee, Yudif Glizer as the Queen of Thieves, and I. Ivanov ... Read More
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