Date and Time
- Thursday, May 29, 2025 7pm
Details
Special Features: Closing Night | 100th Anniversary | Silent with live musical accompaniment by Andrew Earle Simpson
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Trouble is brewing at a large factory in Tsar-era Russia: laborers are overworked and underpaid, and when a man falsely accused of theft kills himself, his comrades will not stand for it anymore. Sergei Eisenstein — then an up-and-coming theater director, later an eccentric genius whose name would become synonymous with Soviet filmmaking — was only 26 when he directed STRIKE. His startling feature film debut broke every convention of the time to create a revolutionary cinema for the new country.
