Стачка / The Strike

'Strike' is the first film of a prominent Soviet film- director Sergey Eisenstein released in 1925. The 'Pravda' newspaper called 'Strike' the first revolutionary work of our screen The film played a relevant role in the development of world cinema-art. Produced by the 1st State Cinema Fabric. 1925 The film was restored in Gorky Film Studio. 1969 S T R I K E Screenplay by 'Proletkultura' under the general editorship by V. Pletnev Starring the crew of the First Labor Theater Directed by Sergey Eisenstein Director of photography: E. Tisse Artist: V. Rakhals The power of the working class lies in its organization. Without organization of the masses the proletariat is nothing. The organized proletariat is everything. Good organization is the unity of actions, the unity of practical performance. Lenin, 1907 CHAPTER 1 All is calm in factory. All is calm in factory. But The fellows are keeping up a row They are moving. Director. They've reported They've laid it all around The inspections... - Fabric region affairs. Cross-light of the point "External observation" List of agents of external observation: Marmoset, Compatriot, Zoya, Bulldog, Fox, Tailor, Shepherd, Owl, Straying. Preparation. "Fox". Blind man's plate "For God's sake, help the blind man" "Owl". To the point of destination. "Marmoset". "Bulldog" Active group. - They're pressing us too much. We have to strike... - To strike with our people? - People won't become better... Strike! Preparation - Agitate everywhere for strike. "Owl" is in hard-set. Sleuth. Conspiratorial meetings. cross over the masses. to the music of accordions. - They became intolerably impudent! At the same time in underground... the fellows are acting. - We have been tolerant for far too long! Strike, comrades, fight! CHAPTER 2 The reason to strike Stole micrometer. The micrometer costs 25 rubles. Three weeks of work for the Tsar. To the office with report. - We've never had thieves before. Administrator. - Thief. - Thief... A note, comrades. The master blames me for theft. I'm innocent, but I can not prove it. And I can not abandon the factory with a stamp of a thief. That's why I decided to commit suicide. Good-bye to all of you and remember: I'm innocent. Yakov Strongin. - At ease! - Stop working! - Master! - Give the siren! - Go away! To the siren! To the old foundry! To the assembly department! The old foundry is jibbing! - Let's go, fellows. - To the office, comrades. Don't open the gates! Don't let anyone in or out! Labor tribune. To the office. - Without our labor the furnaces will go out, the machines will stop, the factory will die... - We've got the power, we are the power if we're united in our fight against the capital. Crew for administration. - Why didn't you report about that before? CHAPTER 3 The factory stands motionless The first days - Stand up to work "Following in fathers' footsteps". - The orders are coming... Everything that their footsteps are based on, belongs to the labor hand... - Striking too?! Requirements engineering. - We demand 8-hour working-day. - That the administration treat us well. - That everyone's salary increase by 30%. In the department. - There are no cowards or traitors among us. We'll stand for our demands to the end. Share-holders. - I'm reading. - 6 hours of labor for juvenile. - They demand the salary increase by 30%! - Terrible! They've put the factory inside politics. - It's insolence. - And now, gentlemen... Pharaohs. - Sit down. - O, it's not the end yet... - To press hard and... juice. Demands. Administration, having discussed attentively the workers' demands... - Take away. Nice answer. ...and until late at night they cared for the worker's interests. CHAPTER 4. The Strike is in process. Announcement. The consumer society is closed due to the repair. - Hunger. To the bazaar. - There was tobacco, and there is no tobacco anymore... - Dad, let's have dinner! Following the red beast. Owl can see in the daytime too. Having discussed the workers' demands attentively, administration considers that they are impossible to meet due to the following points: 1) 8-hour working day is absolutely illegal and doesn't depend on the administration 2) salary incre... in the discussed place. Polite treatment will be advised to the administration on condition of strict obedience of workers to the administration. In the evening. At night. - Fight! - Fight! Next night. Article 102: 4-6 years of penal servitude... or... In the morning. "Worked out". The leader and... dangerous. are discussing the refusal. - Who stands for continuation of the Strike? - Who doesn't? - Minority... - Get back to work. CHAPTER 5. Provocation of a knock-out blow. The security is not squeamish. - I'll report immediately. "The King". Dark deal. - My possessions have no limits. "Kadushkino" Cemetery. Punks. - I need 5 shameless ones. - Absolutely shameless. Let's do it. Marmoset on wholesale, Owl and Bulldog by retail. Transmission. "Military council". Signboard: state drog-shop No 135. From the meeting. To the "case". Coming... - Destroy!.. The fellows of "The King" are acting. - Provocation. - Call the fire-brigade. - You're chatting here. Take care of the siren, or the "case" will go down the drain. - Fellows, follow me! - They want to buy us with ***. Don't yield to these provocations! - Provokers are working here. They are together with the police. Everybody go home, comrades! Let's go! Failure. - Follow me. - Jokers. Dead end. Fight for the way out. Did it. - Went away. "Wash off" the leaders. - ***... were together... Here we are. CHAPTER 6. Liquidation. "... A state grog-shop was plundered, destroyed and burnt by the strikers in the region of the united factories. The crowd was dispersed by water- cannons. The situation in the region is difficult. They fear of next pogroms. On the governor's order, the troops were sent to the region." The first strike. At ease! - Comrades, help! - To the smithy, comrades, take the sledge-hummers! To the flats. Invaded. Brutal! - You won't take them all to prison! The fellows will help. - Fellows. - Your region, huh... Already... - And you, young man, wouldn't like to join us? We would... huh? - Show me the way. - Massacre. - Slaughter. And bloody unforgettable scars lay on the proletariat's bodies: Lena, Talka, Zlotoust, Yaroslavl',Tsaritsin, Kostroma. Remember that P R O L E T A R I A N ! �