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Stachka
(Strike)
Also known as Gapitsva in the USSR; Strike in the USA
(1924) Soviet Union
B&W : Six reels
Directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein

Cast: Grigori Aleksandrov [the factory foreman], Maxim Strauch [the police spy], Mikhail Gomarov [Yakov Strongin, a worker], Yudif Glizer [the queen of thieves], Boris Yurtsev [the king of thieves], Aleksander Antonov [a strike committee member], I. Ivanov [the police chief], Ivan Klyukvin [a revolutionary], Daniil Antonovich [a worker], Vera Yanukova [a worker’s wife], Leonid Alekseev [a factory sleuth], Pyotr Malek [a police spy], Misha Mamin [the baby boy], Pavel Poltoratskiy [a stockholder], Anatoli Kuznetsov, M. Mamin, Vladimir Uralsky

Goskino and Proletkul’t production. / 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 1.33:1 format. / Eisenstein’s first feature film.

Drama.

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

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Listing updated: 27 June 2023.

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.

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