Stachka
(Strike)
AKA Gapitsva in the USSR; Strike in the USA
(1924) Russian
B&W : Six reels
Directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein

Cast: Grigori Aleksandrov [the factory foreman], Maxim Strauch [the police spy], Mikhail Gomarov [a worker], Judith Glizer [the queen of thieves], Boris Yurtsev [the king of thieves], Aleksander Antonov [strike committee member], I. Ivanov [revolutionary], Anatoli Kuznetsov, M. Mamin, Vladimir Uralsky, Vera Yanukova

Goskino and Proletkul’t coproduction. / Produced by Boris Mikhin. Scenario by Proletkult Collective (Valeri Pletnyov, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Ilya Kravchunovsky and Grigori Aleksandrov). Art direction by Vasili Rakhals. Assistant directors Grigori Aleksandrov, Ilya Kravchunovsky and Aleksandr Levshin. Cinematography by Eduard Tissé and Vasili Khvatov + [Vladimir Popov]. / Released 28 April 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Eisenstein’s first feature film.

Drama.

Survival Status: Print exists [35mm preservation positive].

Listing updated: 14 January 2007.

References: Film viewing : Bardèche-History pp. 174, 273; Bohn-Light pp. xxiii, 142, 148, 160; Kael-Kiss p. 358; Limbacher-Feature p. 236; Shipman-Cinema p. 89; Sinyard-Silent pp. 164, 165, 167; Sklar-Movie p. 155; Youngblood-Soviet pp. 80-83, 107, 158, 185, 195, 265, 318 : Website-IMDb.

Home Video: DVD.