Strike

Directed by Sergei Eisenstein | 89 minutes | 15+ | 100th Anniversary |

11:00am Saturday, 31 May | Pink Flamingo Down Under | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes

WORK SUCKS. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

Master of the montage Sergei Eisenstein’s first full-length film (he followed it up with Battleship Potemkin) depicts the story of a 1912 strike by factory workers in Tsarist Russia and its brutal suppression by the authorities. Relevant in Soviet Russia and relevant today all over, Strike may be the most electrically paced and visually exhilarating silent film of all time - at the very least, it is the only one with a King of the Bums who lives in a car husk beyond a monument to fallen cats.

On its 100th anniversary, rage cathartically at your dictatorial bosses and become re-invigorated with the dictatorship of the proletariat at a screening of the exciting, infuriating, terrifying Strike!

SIMILAR: The Battle of Algiers, Akira, Come and See, The Devils

WARNING: This film features graphic footage of animal slaughter.

"The first revolutionary creation of our cinema." - Mikhail Koltsov, Pravda

Co-Presented with The Melbourne Cinémathèque

Country: Russian Federation
Year: 1925
Language: English