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sergei eisensteins strike silent full frame
sergei eisensteins strike with orson welles citizen kane mark the most outstanding cinematic debuts in the history of film . triggered by the suicide of a worker unjustly accused of theft a strike is called by the laborers of a moscow factory . the managers owner and the czarist government dispatch infiltrators in an attempt to break the workers unity . unsuccessful they hire the police and in the films most harrowing and powerful sequences the unarmed strikers are slaughtered in a brutal confrontation . they story divided into six parts was influenced by the amazing theatrical inventions of vsevolod meyerhold . eisentein experimented with the use of montage parallel editing expanded time and the intercutting of symbolic images the beginnings of the techniques that would change the look of cinema . to many eisensteins first film like welles would remain his greatest work surpassing even potemkin in its power and sheer brilliance . this edition of strike is digitally remastered from a mint condition 35mm print made from the original camera negative and features new digital stereo music composed and performed by the alloy orchestra . br br audio commentary by yuri tsivian . br br presented in black & white with english subtitles .
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