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Original version with English subtitles
Poster
Director
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Cast
Maksim Shtraukh (Police Spy), Grigori Aleksandrov (Factory Foreman), Mikhail Gomorov (Worker), Ivan Klyukvin (Revolutionary), Aleksandr Antonov (Member of Strike Committee), I. Ivanov (Chief of Police), Yudif Glizer (Queen of Thieves), Vera Yanukova, Vladimir Uralsky
Plot Outline
The film depicts a strike in 1903 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. Another theme in the film is collectivism in opposition to individualism which was viewed as a convention of western film.
Genre
Drama
Runtime
82 minutes
Production country
RU
Released
1925