Kino Lorber – Stike (Silent film)

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La Grève (Film muet avec intertitre en Russe)

Une usine de la Russie tsariste, en 1912. La révolte gronde chez les ouvriers, ulcérés par leurs conditions de travail inhumaines et leurs paies dérisoires. Accusé à tort d’avoir volé un micromètre, l’un d’entre eux se pend, ce qui met le feu aux poudres. L’usine entre en grève.

Stike (Silent film with Russian intertitles)

In Russia’s factory region during Czarist rule, there’s restlessness and strike planning among workers; management brings in spies and external agents. When a worker hangs himself after being falsely accused of thievery, the workers strike. At first, there’s excitement in workers’ households and in public places as they develop their demands communally. Then, as the strike drags on and management rejects demands, hunger mounts, as does domestic and civic distress. Provocateurs recruited from the lumpen and in league with the police and the fire department bring problems to the workers; the spies do their dirty work; and, the military arrives to liquidate strikers