Basic Information
Region
:
0
Video
:
Pal
4:3
Audio
:
Silent
Subtitles
:
Spanish
Rating
:
tp
Launch date
:
11/30/2004
Synopsis
In 1922, Lenin said that ”…of all the arts, for us the cinema was the most important”. In 1924, the Proletkult offered Eisenstein, then 26 years of age, the job of directing the first of eight episodes in the film series Towards the Dictatorship. This brilliant and complex re-creation of the development of a 1912 factory strike in Tsarist Russia, an its savage destruction by agents provocateurs, police and mounted troops, was an ideal vehicle for the youthful Eisenstein to express his desire to reflect the dialectic of the Russian Revolution in the most comprehensive of art forms. Eisenstein had been developing the Kuloshov `montage´ effect in editing and in this, his first film, he uses it with tremendous skill to enhance symbolism and achieve highly charged emotional responses to the strength, energy an heroism of the working classes an the tragic events depicted, Strike is truly a visual and technical masterpiece which is, at times, overwhelming in its powerful portrayal of these events in history. Strike was the only film ever made in the series and it changed the direction of the Soviet cinema for many decades to come.
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