Strike
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Strike is a 1924 Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein. It is considered Eisenstein's first feature film and a seminal work of revolutionary cinema.12
The film is a semidocumentary that depicts the brutal suppression of a strike by tsarist factory owners and police. Eisenstein employed his theory of the "montage of attractions," juxtaposing images to create maximum psychological impact. A famous sequence intercuts shots of striking workers being massacred with shots of cattle being slaughtered in an abattoir, emphasizing the brutality of the event.12
Strike was an immediate success and established Eisenstein's innovative approach to filmmaking, influencing the development of cinema worldwide.12
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montage…of the latter occurs in Strike (1924), by the Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, when the scene of workers being cut down by cavalry is followed by a shot of cattle being slaughtered.
Read More…of the latter occurs in Strike (1924), by the Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, when the scene of workers being cut down by cavalry is followed by a shot of cattle being slaughtered.
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filmMontageIn Stachka (1924; Strike), for example, the director Eisenstein, to whom the theory of ideational montage is credited, effectively conveys the idea of slaughter by intercutting a shot of cattle being butchered with shots of workers being cut down by cavalry.
Read MoreIn Stachka (1924; Strike), for example, the director Eisenstein, to whom the theory of ideational montage is credited, effectively conveys the idea of slaughter by intercutting a shot of cattle being butchered with shots of workers being cut down by cavalry.
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