Strike

Eisenstein, Goskino / Proletkult, 1925, his first feature, age twenty-six. A factory goes out; spies, police, and the owners answer; the strike is broken. He cuts the raid against the slaughter of a bull, a metaphor he would keep being asked about. Non-actors, circus bodies, titles that shout: a workshop for Potemkin, shot the same year. Gosfilmofond materials underpin the circulating restorations.