Strike

“Down with autocracy! Long live the democratic republic!”

The workers of a Russian factory in 1905 want fair treatment from bosses who watch them through paid informers and a foreman's sharp eye. When a man is accused of stealing a piece of machinery and takes his own life, his colleagues walk off the line, and Sergei Eisenstein makes his first feature out of the weeks that follow. The strike grows into a whole workforce standing against the Czarist government, and the crowd, not any single hero, carries the story.