Strike (film)
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| Directed by | Sergei M. Eisenstein |
| Produced by | Boris Mikhin |
| Written by | Grigori Aleksandrov Ilya Kravchunovsky Sergei M. Eisenstein Valeryan Pletnyov |
| Cinematography | Eduard Tisse |
| Release date(s) |  April 28, 1925 |
| Running time | 82 min. |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Silent film Russian intertitles |
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Strike (rus. "Стачка") is a 1925 silent film made in the Soviet Union by Sergei Eisenstein. It was Eisenstein's first full-length feature film, and he would go on to make The Battleship Potemkin later that year.
The film depicts a strike by the workers of a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia, and their subsequent suppression. The film is most famous for a sequence near the end in which the violent putting down of the strike is cross-cut with footage of cattle being slaughtered, although there are several other points in the movie where animals are used as metaphors for the conditions of various individuals.
