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Strike = Stachka / La Cinémathèque de Toulouse presents ; a production of the First State Film Factory ; scenario, Proletkult under the direction of V. Pletniev ; direction, S. Eisenstein.
LIBRA BLU RAY PN1997 .S7225 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Standardized Title:
- Stachka (Motion picture). English.
- Language:
- English
- No linguistic content
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Strikes and lockouts--Soviet Union--Drama.
- Strikes and lockouts.
- Russia--History--Revolution, 1905-1907--Drama.
- Russia.
- Soviet Union.
- Genre:
- Historical films -- Soviet Union.
- Feature films -- Soviet Union.
- Silent films -- Soviet Union.
- Foreign films.
- Motion pictures -- Soviet Union.
- Russian language films.
- Drama
- Feature films
- Fiction films
- Historical films
- History
- Silent films
- Historical films.
- Feature films.
- Silent films.
- Motion pictures, Russian.
- Fiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Distribution:
- New York, NY: Distributed by Kino Lorber
- Other Title:
- Stachka
- Стачка
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Kino Classics : [2011]
- Language Note:
- Silent film added musical score and intertitles in English; some signage in film in Russian, with English translation.
- System Details:
- Blu-ray; full-frame (1.33:1) presentation; 1920 x 1080p ; stereo 2.0.
- digital optical stereo 2.0
- full frame (1.33:1) 1920 x 1080p
- video file Blu-ray
- Summary:
- 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 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.
- Participant:
- Performed by the First Workers' Theatre of Proletkult.
- Credits:
- Camera, E. Tisse ; sets, Rakhals ; musical score compiled and performed by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.
- Notes:
- Blu-ray; disc will play only on Blu-ray disc players, Blu-ray disc computer drives and Playstation 3 game consoles
- Blu-ray disc release of the 1925 motion picture.
- Full screen (1.33:1).
- "'Toward dictatorship'", a series of films on the workers' movement in Russia. First volume: Strike, in 6 parts." --Frame after title frame.
- "Restored by the Cinémathèque de Toulouse"--Container.
- Special features: Dnevnik Glumova = Glumov's diary: Sergei Eisenstein's first film, a short made to be used in his stage production of Alexander Ostrovsky's "Enough stupidity in every wise man" (1923; 4 min.); "Eisentein and the revolutionary spirit": film historian Natacha Laurent discusses Eisenstein's work in the context of the Communist Revolution and contemporary Soviet filmmaking (2008; 37 min.).
- Contains:
- Dnevnik Glumova.
- Glumov's diary.
- Eisenstein and the revolutionary spirit.
- OCLC:
- 768669131
- Publisher Number:
- 738329078324
- K783 Kino Classics
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