Down with autocracy! Long live the democratic republic!

Just before the 1905 Bolshevik Revolution, factory workers strike against their oppressive factory bosses. When a worker is accused of stealing a piece of machinery, he commits suicide, and his colleagues revolt against the overarching Czarist regime. As the strike drags on and government officials grow increasingly desperate to end it, their methods of dealing with the rebellious workers become more and more aggressive.

Cast & crew

Sergei Eisenstein

Director

Maksim Shtraukh

Police Spy

Grigori Aleksandrov

Factory Foreman

Mikhail Gomorov

Worker

Ivan Klyukvin

Revolutionary

Aleksandr Antonov

Member of Strike Committee

Vladimir Uralskiy

Worker

Anatoliy Kuznetsov

I

I. Ivanov

Chief of Police

Y

Yudif Glizer

Queen of Thieves

Vera Yanukova

Worker's wife

M

M. Mamin

Boris Yurtsev

King of Thieves

Danylo Antonovych

Worker (uncredited)

Pavel Poltoratskiy

Manufacturer

L

Leonid Alekseev