Full of dazzling cinematic conventions, Eisenstein’s first full-length film depicts the story of a 1912 strike by factory workers in Tsarist Russia and its brutal suppression by the authorities. Eisenstein’s dialectic montage is on full display, incorporating caricature, visual metaphor, and shock cutting. Made with members of the Proletkult Theatre, Strike is an essential work of the Soviet Constructivist art movement of the 1920s.