Strike   [videorecording] /  
 Sergei Eisenstein's Strike  

, Soviet Union  
 - New York, NY :   Kino Classics :   Distributed by Kino Lorber, Inc.,   2011.  
 - 1 videodisc (89 min.) :   sd., b&w ;   4 3/4 in.  
<br/><br/> Title taken from disc surface.   Blu-ray disc release of the 1925 motion picture.   "'Toward dictatorship'", a series of films on the workers' movement in Russia. First volume: Strike, in 6 parts." --Frame after title frame.   Special features: 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.); "Eisenstein 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.).  
<br/><br/>Camera, E. Tisse ; sets, Rakhals ; musical score compiled and performed by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.   Camera, E. Tisse ; sets, Rakhals ; musical score compiled and performed by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.  
<br/><br/>Performed by the First Workers' Theatre of Proletkult.  
<br/><br/> Mark the most outstanding cinematic debuts in the history of film. 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.  
<br/><br/> Containes scenes of violence that some may find disturbing.  Viewer discretion is advised.  
<br/><br/><br/>Blu-ray; full-frame (1.33:1), 1920 x 1080p ; stereo 2.0; disc will play only on Blu-ray disc players, Blu-ray disc computer drives and Playstation 3 game consoles.  
<br/><br/><br/>Silent film with intertitles in Russian, with English translation.  
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>738329078324  
<br/><br/><label>Publisher. No.: </label>K783   Kino Classics  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Strikes and lockouts --Soviet Union --Drama. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Russia --History --Revolution, 1905-1907 --Drama. 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Historical films <br/>Feature films. <br/>Silent films. <br/>Fiction films. 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1997   / .S7225 2011