A strike on the part of the factory workers in 1912 Russia is brutally suppressed by the authorities. Visual montage, caricature and disturbing slaughterhouse sequences highlight the brutality of the police, in Sergei Eisenstein's allegoric first feature film.
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Writer: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Writer: Valeri Pletiniov
Writer: I. Kravchinovsky
Cinematographer: Edouard Tisse
Cinematographer: Vassili Khvatov
Actor: Maxim Shtraukh
Actor: Anatoli Kuznetsov
Actor: Grigori Alexandrov
Actor: M. Mamin
Actor: I. Ivanov
Actor: Boris Yurtsev
Actor: I. Kluvkin
Actor: Vladimir Uralsky
Actor: Vera Yanukova
Actor: Mikhail Gomarov