The read
Critics rate it 24 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 80% of the 137 1920s drama movies in this catalog. It runs a compact 1h 29m.
Synopsis
Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.
Ratings
IMDb7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 24 points higher than audiences do.
251 audience votes
Key crew
- Valerian PletnevScreenplay
- Sergei EisensteinDirector
- Sergei EisensteinScreenplay
- Ilya KravchunovskyScreenplay
- Grigori AleksandrovScreenplay
Cast
- Maksim ShtraukhPolice Spy
- Grigori AleksandrovFactory Foreman
- Mikhail GomorovWorker
- Ivan KlyukvinRevolutionary
- Aleksandr AntonovMember of Strike Committee
- Vladimir UralskiyWorker
- Anatoliy KuznetsovCast
- I. IvanovChief of Police
- Yudif GlizerQueen of Thieves
- Vera YanukovaWorker's wife
- M. MaminCast
- Boris YurtsevKing of Thieves
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Themes
police brutalitystrikestreet riotsuprisingrussian politicssilent filmoppressionlabor strikelabor unionriot policeworker's rightsanimal slaughter